
The Elgin Marbles or The Parthenon Sculptures: what is the solution?
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The British Museum and the Bassai Freeze
The British Museum even has a marvellous freeze that hardly anybody sees. It was part built by one of the architects of the Parthenon sculptures. And it's right there in the British Museum. Same era, two and a half, a dozen years old. You could go and see that universal culture. Basically, we all love Neil McGregor. He came up with a wonderful argument that was very, very seductive about the Universal Museum, the World Museum. But it is called the British Museum, let's remember. And I think we're not very slow.
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