On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Parthenon Sculptures trigger-happy removal from Hellenic Republic together with their transfer to the British Museum, the president of the Acropolis Museum, Professor Dimitris Pantermalis gave an interview to ANA-MPA on the supply of the marbles stressing that "it is a affair of cultural morality."
"Great monuments own got their ain rights. The rights of their ain integrity. Great monuments cannot locomote fragmented," he underlined.
When asked on the supply of the Marbles, he said: "There are many factors that play a decisive business office on the issue. At the marker of museums things are less difficult, exactly the trial has been transferred to a political marker together with fifty-fifty at a marker of international politics, thus things are getting to a greater extent than difficult. On the i hand, globalization tin help, on the other paw it tin block many things together with it is too the political ability that plays a pregnant role."
"What is of import is the constant struggle, the constant vigilance together with keeping the trial constantly alive. And the trial is kept alive, to locomote realistic. I am optimistic. But it is too a affair of time," he underlined.
Asked if he believed that the British Museum could supply the sculptures, he replied: "Yes, exactly it is non thus simple. They are non going to tell us 'take them back.' We should negotiate; nosotros should give them something inwards exchange. For example, the thought of periodic exhibitions of Greek industrial plant to the British Museum is non bad. Good ideas exist, exactly it takes fourth dimension to implement them. This proposal is nether give-and-take because it is too inwards their ain interest," Pantermalis stated.
Asked whether the novel Acropolis Museum differs from the British Museum inwards the display of the marbles, he noted: "The Acropolis Museum is past times far improve because the marbles are displayed inwards their master place, every bit they were inwards the master edifice ... They are illuminated inwards the same agency together with parallel to the monument. Thus, the visitor tin run into the monument from i side together with the master architecture on the other side."
Source: ANA-MPA [May 26, 2016]
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