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Rightwing campaigners claim there is covert deal to return Parthenon marbles
(www.theguardian.com)
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There's a lot of unfounded stupid conspiracy theories but the thing about stupid conspiracy theories, is that they're stupid.
For me it's a conspiracy theory (and most likely untrue) - but it's quite an interesting one rather than "stupid". Raises ideas about authenticity and what people are doing when they go to look at artifacts in museums. There HAVE been paintings, for instance, hung in galleries for years that have turned out to be forgeries but - for a long time people were happy staring at the "art". Also, ones that have been restored beyond a point where they are pretty much not the original piece. How much would it alter things if the Marbles were all replaced with exact replicas at the British Museum?
What would be the point in doing that? There are lots of replicas in museums but they tend to get labelled as such and they serve a purpose beyond just looking at them. The truth is the British public don't really care about the Marbles, so if they went back to Greece I don't think the museum would really need to put up a replacement.
Look at York Museum practically everything in there is replica, it's all for the purpose of demonstrating history.