Tiffany Jenkins: Museums were not designed to be places of atonement. She says they're more about egalitarianism than it is about fighting injustice. We need a different institution for that, she says; the political process needs to redress grievances.Jenkins: The past can help us understand and appreciate what we have in our modern world.
Should the British Museum return the Elgin Marbles, taken from the Parthenon in Athens about 200 years ago? What should be the purpose of museums, education or social justice? Listen as Tiffany Jenkins, author of Keeping Their Marbles, discusses these questions and more with EconTalk host Russ Roberts.