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The new acropolis museum which opened in 2009 at a cost of 175 million continues to hold space for the missing marbles in its third floor parthenon gallery exhibiting facsimiles of the absent antiquities last month greece s culture minister said that athens would step up its campaign for the return of the elgin marbles and believed its.

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Because of its ongoing preservation efforts and the legacy of the objects i believe that the elgin marbles belong to the greek government. There s more to the british museum than the elgin marbles in digital form. By michael kimmelman show more. γλυπτά του παρθενώνα also known as the elgin marbles ˈɛlɡɪn are a collection of classical greek marble sculptures made under the supervision of the architect and sculptor phidias and his assistants.

Furthermore after discovering an ancient settlement on the construction site the museum s. The parthenon marbles greek. Parthenon sculptures elgin marbles collection of ancient greek sculptures and architectural details in the british museum london where they are now called the parthenon sculptures. The term elgin marbles refers to the collection of marbles that lord elgin took from the acropolis in 1801 that are now housed in the the collection includes about half of all the marbles that remained of the parthenon including just under half of the frieze and much of its pediment.

The marble statues of the parthenon were taken during a vulnerable time for the greeks and today they have proven that they are deserving and able to own the elgin marbles. That the parthenon had been ruined and that the sculptures were now out of context. The elgin marbles are a collection of classical greek marble sculptures inscriptions and architectural members that were mostly created by phidias and his assistants.