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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles

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Founded in 1983, the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles (BCRPM) are a group of British people who having considered the case for the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles, strongly support it. www.parthenonuk.com

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Tanya Pia Starrett @tanyapiastarrett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@bcrpm.bsky.social @britishmuseum.bsky.social Britain would not cut up the Bayeux tapestry. So seize this moment and reunite the Parthenon sculptures in Greece | Kyriakos Mitsotakis www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britain would not cut up the Bayeux tapestry. So seize this moment and reunite the Parthenon sculptures in Greece | Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Both Greek and British citizens think the sculptures should be returned. What’s needed now is political will and courage, says Kyriakos Mitsotakis, prime minister of Greece
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Constantine Sandis @csandis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Reflection of the Parthenon on the @acropolismuseum.bsky.social in Athens. There is no better place for all of the Parthenon sculptures to be reunified. @bcrpm.bsky.social
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Greek prime minister rejects any comparison...He notes that the Bayeux Tapestry remains a single work of art, which France lent to Britain and which is to be returned to its country of origin. By contrast, he argues that the Parthenon Sculptures are parts of a single monument ."
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
hoping the visitor numbers and revenue generated of a special tapestry @bayeuxtapestry.bsky.social, will encourage the @britishmuseum.bsky.social to reunite the Parthenon Marbles in exchange for a selection of Greek artefacts not seen outside of Greece to be lent to the BM on a rotational basis
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Fundraising ball No2 for the British Museum will be turning red, but not for the reasons one might imagine....... Article by Gareth Harris for The Art Newspaper www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/03/b...? #museums #fundraising
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British Museum to turn red for second fundraising ball
Tickets for this year's event will cost £3,500 a head to raise funds towards the museum's billion-pound transformation
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We appreciate that there are always alternative views to high profile cases of cultural heritage injustices. The case for the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles sets to rest all that is written in this article that supports division. historyreclaimed.co.uk/the-elgin-ma...? #rjustcause
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Elgin Marbles Restitution: The Case for Returning Them to Athens
A dissent from History Reclaimed's own line: why the ethical case for Elgin Marbles restitution outweighs retention, and why the Louvre escapes scrutiny.
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
too delightful not to reshare plus the Vatican Museum are in our great books as they magnanimously returned the fragments they had from the #Parthenon, to Athens' Acropolis Museum. #goodrelations
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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If only there’d been some sort of clue…
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
With Fresh Marble Fillings, the Parthenon Gets a Partial Glow-Up @nytimes.com Restorers have fixed a gap on the western side of the temple in Athens that had been empty for more than 220 years. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/a... #reunitetheparthenonmrbles #timesisnow #TellTheStory
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With Fresh Marble Fillings, the Parthenon Gets a Partial Glow-Up
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Happy 17th anniversary Acropolis Museum, 20 June 2026 ✊❤🏆🎆🎉 Acropolis Museum - Μουσείο Ακρόπολης, photo credit: Tony Godwin. "The Acropolis Museum - Μουσείο Ακρόπολης is a great example of how contemporary architecture can function as a curatorial instrument." www.meer.com/en/104262-ar...?
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The the UK in a rut, repeating an old rote, the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles in the hands of the British Museum when the British Museum cannot do anything significant because of the laws that exist, and the UK government not willing to amend. #reunitetheparthenonmarbles #timeisnow
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Tanya Pia Starrett @tanyapiastarrett.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
@britishmuseum.bsky.social @bcrpm.bsky.social Refreshing view. Excellent essay, Dominic! 👍👏 Basic paraphrasing from me: It's British Retention that needs justification, NOT Greece's Restitution' very worth a read👇
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
here's to a level of politics nations are crying out to see ..... @houseofcommons.parliament.uk , @houseoflords.parliament.uk @dcmsgovuk.bsky.social @unesco.bsky.social #justcause #respect #culturalheritage
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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🗣️ Dinosaur! POV: you ask Natalie Haynes a question at Hay Festival…
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
One of Aesop's fables is about a tortoise who is the only one not to attend Zeus' wedding. When ask why, they say 'Οἶκος φίλος, οἶκος ἄριστος' (basically, the home you love, that home is best). It appears to be the root of "There's no place like home." The older I get, the more I get tortoise-y.🐢
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
‘ ......the Marbles represent the best of an ancient democracy." Lord Woolley of Woodford speaking to Mimi Denissi for her Greek docudrama ‘The Woman behind Elgin. Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin.’ 1/1 #greece #unesco #icprcp
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Tonight, in Geneva, at the at the Louis-Jeantet Centre, the Swiss Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles is hosting the film screening of 'The woman behind Elgin, Mary Nisbet Countess of Elgin'. A docudrama presented by Mimi Denissi. www.parthenonuk.com/latest-news/...
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
01 June👇, Professor Paul Cartledge, Vice Chair of BCRPM and Armand D'Angour member of BCRPM will be speaking about Pericles and the crisis of democracy. It is online and you can register here: pericles-myth.eventbrite.ie #pericles #democracy #BCRPM
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Graham Henderson @grahamflhenderson.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
So good. @bcrpm.bsky.social
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
UNESCO'S ICPRCP 25th Session, countries urging the UK to find the political and ethical courage to reunite the Parthenon Marbles www.parthenonuk.com/latest-news/... #UNESCO #ICPRCP #25thsession
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UNESCO'S ICPRCP 25th Session, countries urging the UK to find the political and ethical courage to reunite the Parthenon Marbles
We've sat and listened to the UNESCO ICPRCP sessions over a number of years. We were privileged to hear Artemis Papathanassiou in June 2016 at our...
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Three days & on this Friday evening, the summary of this 25th session of UNESCO's ICPRCP by the Rapporteur. On the subject of the outstanding matter of the reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures, 20 members supported Greece's request. #reunitetheparthenonmarbles #timeisnow #TellTheStory
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Professor Dame Averil Cameron and thoughts from Judith Herrin www.facebook.com/parthenonuk "Thanks to her memoir, Transitions (2025), we now know more about Averil’s background and childhood. Among other things it engendered a loyalty to the Labour Party that was sorely tested in more recent times.
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Don't miss this event as both Professors will make it memorable in more ways than one✊❤! We also thank both Paul and Armand for their passion for classics and more.… www.facebook.com/events/15801...
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Letícia Haertel @lmhaertel.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
So much has changed since then. Others remained exactly the same. And there is a third category: changes that were supposed to have happened, and yet, did not. While I wait until I'm able to share a more detailed piece I wrote on this comparison, you may find the post here:
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The Parthenon Sculptures and #UbirajaraBelongstoBR:a commentary on old excuses and bad faith
What do the Parthenon and a weird Brazilian dinosaur known as “Ubirajara jubatus”* have in common? Apparently, not much. Yet, they are both...
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Letícia Haertel @lmhaertel.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Three years ago, I had the honor to be invited to publish a tt thread I had written as an article on @bcrpm.bsky.social's website. I wrote on how the "Ubirajara" and the Parthenon Sculptures cases exemplify how repetitive and fallacious some “arguments” used to not return cultural objects are.
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Michael McGregor's 'The Parthenon Marbles and other looted objects in the British Museum' on show in Athens, Greece at the George Benias Gallery. www.parthenonuk.com/latest-news/... #museum #art #michaelmacgregor
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Michael McGregor's 'The Parthenon Marbles and other looted objects in the British Museum'
In a decade, Michael McGregor has exhibited at galleries in Los Angeles, New York, Maroux, and Jardin; in March 2024, he publish Room...
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Maundy Thursday (the Thursday before Easter Sunday, commemorating the Last Supper) and please show your appreciation for baritone, Stuart O'Hara as well as the other Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey in the video www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5sG... #maundythursday #tallis #lamentations
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Tallis' Lamentations of Jeremiah part II sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey
YouTube video by Westminster Abbey
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me by Edith Hall | Issue 172 | Philosophy Now philosophynow.org/issues/172/F...
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Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me by Edith Hall | Issue 172 | Philosophy Now
Manisha Sarade on suicide’s meaning for the Greeks and for us.
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow ... 25 March, a special day for #Greece and celebrated by Greeks across the globe. If you are in Athens, do visit the superlative #AcropolisMuseum, as tomorrow is free entrance day!🩷👍👇
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
today, is singer songwriter Hellena's birthday! Celebrate the song she sung in Room 18 @britishmuseum.bsky.social in 2019 for the 10th anniversary of the #AcropolisMuseum. Listen www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Ek... Read more: www.parthenonuk.com/latest-news/... #reunitetheparthenonmarbles #timeisnow
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HELLENA - The Parthenon Marbles (bring them back) (Official Video)
YouTube video by HELLENA
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Documentary film-maker David Nicholas Wilkinson attended the #Thessaloniki film festival, then dropped into Athens to visit the #AcropolisMuseum. His documentary 'The Marbles' has made waves in the UK & has now, also been seen in Greece. The journey continues! #TheMarbles #justcause #documentary
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"Today, democracies of the free world must demand the return & reunification of the sculptures in Athens, mother of Western civilisation, cradle of all democracies — may their symbol stand united beneath the Attic light in which it was born." Professor Nikos Stampolidis, Acropolis Museum 1/1
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Tanya Pia Starrett @tanyapiastarrett.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
@britishmuseum.bsky.social Return the Parthenon marbles home! Q-has ur trustees/staff actually been to the spacious, climate controlled, context savvy,excellent display condition spaces for eventual return theacropolismuseum.gr ? Unesco's 2021 ICPRCP..'recognition legality....Greece's just claim'.
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Αρχική | Μουσείο Ακρόπολης | Επίσημος ιστοχώρος
Το Μουσείο Ακρόπολης, από τα σπουδαιότερα του κόσμου, φιλοξενεί ευρήματα προερχόμενα αποκλειστικά από την αθηναϊκή Ακρόπολη και τις πλαγιές της. Τα αριστουργηματικά έργα που απαρτίζουν τις συλλογές ...
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Dominic Wexler @dominicwexler.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
✒️ My belated response to the conservative political action committee Great British PAC (GBPAC), who published a two-page letter maligning the campaign to repatriate the Parthenon Marbles to Athens. dominicwexler.substack.com/p/to-great-b... @bcrpm.bsky.social
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To: Great British PAC, "In Defence of the Repatriation of the Parthenon Marbles".
In July last year, the conservative political action committee Great British PAC (GBPAC) published a two-page letter maligning the campaign to repatriate the Parthenon Marbles to Athens.
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Decades pass, great people pass, the campaign to reunite the #ParthenonMarbles continues. Celebrate Melina Mercouri Day, today 06 March 2026. 📷credit for photos 2 & 3, #BCRPM #reunitetheparthenonmarbles #timeisnow #TellTheStory
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
#ThrowbackThursday, Kathimerini English Edition, the time was right for change then (24.06.2024) as it continues to be today - support the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @houseofcommons.parliament.uk, @houseoflords.parliament.uk www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1242... #DCMS #BritishMuseum
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A call to support the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles | eKathimerini.com
The British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles is urging UK voters to write to their MPs to advocate for the return of the sculptures to Greece.
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Tanya Pia Starrett @tanyapiastarrett.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
With the New Acropolis Museum now firmly established, the reopening of the old Museum ......is an affirmation that ...... history is not static, and that memory, when carefully revealed, can shape the future'.
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Where's the heart? www.parthenonuk.com/latest-news/... #reunitetheparthenonmarbles #museums #respect #culturalheritage
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Have a heart UK government and British Museum, reunite the Parthenon Marbles in the Acropolis Museum
From the heart pendant necklace gifted by Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England and the King's first wife as a sign of love, to the...
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Repatriated Greek antiquities include Artemis relief from destroyed Piraeus sanctuary @ekathimerini Six looted ancient Greek artefacts were repatriated yesterday, Thursday from London following a long legal battle, stated the Greek Culture Ministry www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1293... #restitution
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Repatriated Greek antiquities include Artemis relief from destroyed Piraeus sanctuary | eKathimerini.com
Six looted ancient Greek artifacts, including a marble sculpture that had been an offering at a now destroyed temple of Artemis in Piraeus, were repatriated Thursday from London following a long legal...
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The old Acropolis Museum reopens, revealing the hidden life of the sacred rock @protothema Closed paths, unseen monuments, and more than 1,100 unknown artefacts return to light, weaving ancient Athens into a dialogue with the future, writes Tina Mandilara en.protothema.gr/2026/01/22/t...
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The old Acropolis Museum reopens, revealing the hidden life of the sacred rock - ProtoThema English
Closed paths, unseen monuments, and more than 1,100 unknown artifacts return to light, weaving ancient Athens into a dialogue with the future
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Museums must reach all parts of UK, says Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sports, Lisa Nandy @theguardian.com : British Museum and the National Portrait Gallery urged to look outside the capital to extend their sphere of influence. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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Museums must reach all parts of UK, says Nandy as £1.5bn of arts funding announced
Culture secretary says national institutions will receive £600m but they must extend influence outside London
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Marlen Godwin @marlengodwin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
millennia, centuries, decades, years, months, days, hours, seconds - that's passing of time and the #ParthenonMarbles were and continue to be timeless - reuniting them as close as it it is physically possible to the #Parthenon is sense and sensibility. #BMJustDoIt #acropolismuseum
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
A Letter from Scotland 'Peace by piece It is time to return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece', writes Jackie Kemp And indeed there is no better time than the present. jackie125.substack.com/p/peace-by-p... #timeisnow #TellTheStory #reunitetheparthenonmarbles
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Peace by piece
It is time to return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Switzerland is one of the five most important countries in the world for the art market and more vulnerable to the arrival of goods from illegal trafficking. www.swissinfo.ch/fre/le-meill...
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La Suisse reste une plaque tournante pour les biens culturels pillés, malgré des améliorations notables
Actrice majeure du marché de l’art, la Suisse reste une plaque tournante du commerce illégal de biens culturels. Mais la situation s’est améliorée ces 20 dernières années grâce à la mise en place d’un...
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
British Museum Seeks Treasure Hunter to Recover Stolen Antiquities @artnet news.artnet.com/art-world/br...
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British Museum Seeks Treasure Hunter to Recover Stolen Antiquities
The British Museum is stepping up the search for hundreds of antiquities, stolen in 2023, by hiring a dedicated treasure hunter.
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"The British Museum has a charter obligation to inform the arts in this country. They are failing in that obligation by not publishing letters that play a pivotal part in explaining the events that led to parliament buying the so called 'Elgin Marbles' in 1816." writes @tomminogue.bsky.social
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Image 📷 credits : Socratis Mavrommatis with thanks to the Acropolis Museum. #festive #goodwishes #BCRPM
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
There is no slippery slope and great news for those museums that can on moral grounds restitute artefacts in their collections! #atlast #museums #charitiesact
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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 26/11/2025
News | Icom and INTERPOL launch initiative to combat cultural theft and trafficking Museum community agrees to strengthen global action againt heritage crime at triennial Icom conference ICOM UK
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Icom and Interpol launch initiative to combat cultural theft and trafficking - Museums Association
Museum community agrees to strengthen global action against cultural heritage crime
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British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
240-kms run from the Akamas to Cape Greco in under 24 hours, Dec 21 - let's cheer the fabulous four.....👇🏃 “Running across Cyprus”, check it out! “Our purpose is mainly to show others that if you put your mind to something, you can achieve anything ,”university student, Anghelo George Eleftheriou
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