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> I hope one day all these countries, like Syria, will have their own museums to rival ours, and the peace and stability to enjoy them for centuries too. I fi
by leto_ii 4y ago
> I hope one day all these countries, like Syria, will have their own museums to rival ours, and the peace and stability to enjoy them for centuries too.
I find the British pretext that they're keeping (often stolen) artifacts for safety reasons to be really flimsy.
Greece is a safe country that has built a world class museum quite some years ago [1] and the Elgin marbles are still in London.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropolis_Museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropolis_Museum
- Retric 4y agoI think the argument is less about any one country specifically than it is one of redundancy. At the extreme a museum keeping all examples of a culture in one place is a single point of failure. Not just from disasters but also that museum‘s bureaucracy. That however doesn’t excuse keeping what are often the best examples in their collection.