Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni, Director of the Acropolis Museum Nikos Stambolidis and President of the Acropolis Museum Dimitris Pantermalis took part in the ceremony to place the Fagana fragment in its place on the frieze of the Parthenon at the Acropolis Museum on Monday. The symbolic and practical gesture made […]
Sicily returns to Greece a fragment of the Parthenon frieze as part of a cultural agreement of great international importance. Known as the Fagan Fragment, it depicts the foot of the goddess Peyto or Artemis peeking out of a beautifully sewn tunic. Refunds are made in the context of the Greek-Italian exchange agreement, with the […]
The United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution proposed by Greece on the “return or restitution of cultural property to countries of origin”. Greece’s three-year resolution has been backed by an unprecedented number of 111 countries, the Foreign Ministry said on Twitter on Tuesday. The resolution was adopted at a plenary meeting on Monday, […]
On Saturday, the new director of the British Museum offered to return the stolen Parthenon marble sculptures to Greece only as a short-term loan. In an article in The Times, director George Osborne, a former Treasury secretary under the conservative Cameron, wrote primarily convinced that the marble statues had not been stolen. “We are open […]
Under current British law, the return of the Parthenon marbles from the British Museum to Greece is not possible. After the question has been “reheated”, after recent contacts Kyriakos Mitsotakis with Boris Johnson learned that this law could be changed. According to the British publication Telegraph, a specific 1963 law prohibits the concession of the […]
Ten fragments of the sculptural decoration of the Parthenon will be transferred to the Acropolis Museum from the warehouse of the National Archaeological Museum, where they have been kept until now. The fragments include parts of human figures from the eastern and southern friezes of the Parthenon and its northern metopes, as well as parts […]
The return of the Parthenon marble to Greece was one of the key issues that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (at least according to him) intended to discuss with his British counterpart Boris Johnson, at a meeting on Tuesday afternoon in London. Everything happened as expected: the Greek Prime Minister asked for the reunification of the […]
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he plans to raise the issue of returning the Parthenon marble sculptures from the British Museum at a meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson next week. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mitsotakis said that the sculptures created 2,500 years ago were “stolen” from Athens, “and we […]
The photos posted online raise suspicions that the Greek halls of the British Museum are again damaged by water, as they did not open after the lockdown was lifted. The Greek Halls of the British Museum, which house the Parthenon marbles, have not reopened to the public since the lockdown was lifted. The reason, according […]