The Parthenon Marbles: Yearning For Aegean Light

It is often said that if the Parthenon Marbles return to Athens would harm the British Museum's identity as a universal museum or as an encyclopedic museum.

On the contrary, it would be one of the greatest universal gestures the British Museum would make to return these objects. The British Museum could thus emerge as a generous Museum, as a truly universal Museum.

The Parthenon as it Once Was

The Parthenon is visually reunited with its sculptural decorations and regains its true colors in an outstanding computer animation. Watch how the iconic monument was created as part of the Acropolis's 5th c. BC building program, and what it took for it to define classicism and eternal beauty in a work where technology met archaeological research.

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