23). The British opinion of the Benin people as a “savage and brutal” (Loftus‚ 2008‚ The British Museum and the Benin ‘antiquities’‚ p.52)‚ race led them to question how an “entirely barbarous” (Read and Dalton‚ 1898‚ ‘Antiquities from the City of Benin...’‚ in Reading 2.6: ‘Works of art from Benin City’‚ Loftus and Wood‚ ‘The Art of Benin...’‚ p.84) civilisation could produce such “sophisticated works of art” (Loftus‚ 2008‚ The British Museum and the Benin ‘antiquities’‚ p.52). The British also questioned
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Acropolis Museum was built south of the Acropolis Hill. It is to maintain the Parthenon sculpture in the greatest natural way. The British have them in a museum in artificial light‚ which is destroying the accuracy of the artwork. It is said that the British are not able to provide a true copy of the purchase. Greece claims that they have been stolen. Even though‚ the court system is saying “moral obligation” is not enough of an argument to deliver them to Greece‚ I still disagree. The British are claiming
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Greece have been placed in the British museum‚ they are recognized as the Elgin Marbles. The Elgin Marbles continue to be the main point of an ongoing debate that will basically determine the historical influence of an important culture. Some of the sculptures that were removed were the marble figures‚ metopes (sculptures in high relief) and friezes. To this day the Greek government has correctly requested the return of the Elgin Marbles a few times while the British government has frequently refuse
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these points in a well-organized manner that keeps the paper flowing and continuously makes sense to the reader. Merryman tries to remain as unbiased as he can‚ but with all the facts presented‚ it is hard to not see the article as biased towards the British. Overall‚ the article boils down to Greece winning the emotional argument‚ but Britain holds power with a legal ownership. Was the removal of the marbles from the Parthenon legal? The answer to this commonly asked question is one hundred percent
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long before it would be taken back home was the economic factor. The Metropolitan Museum Art argued that the Greek people lacked the economic resources in protecting the artifact from adverse environmental conditions and theft. Again‚ they gained a lot of revenue when people came to see this artifact. Based on its design and unique appearance‚ this crate creates a lot of attraction and revenue and thus the British were adamant to release it back home. The potters of this artifact made a lot of money
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2.3 Market Analysis There is a huge “The Hunk” was place about a house’s roof in the middle of the housing area. It was a landmark and also a benchmark for the Toy Museum Melaka. Previously the Toy Museum Melaka was located at Jonker Street but now‚ it was at Bukit Baru. By collecting all kinds of toys from different parts of country‚ they used low price to buy and treat the toys from owners. In this view‚ they managed to collect and display some old type of toys and limited edition one. The
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identity and why keeping them in Britain makes sense. Finally‚ the third section focuses on the location of the antiquities in relation to the accessibility by scholars and world-travelers. The first point to be debated revolves around Lord Elgin‚ British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople. Elgin received a firman from the Ottoman Sultan to make sketches and casts of the Parthenon’s sculptures‚ to deconstruct buildings if it was necessary to view the antiquities‚ and to remove sculptures
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of Benin have been controversial and continue to be so. The Places which home the artwork of Benin have and continue to cause controversy. They did not always as they did in the late nineteenth century languish in cramped displays set up by museums around the world‚ or in sitting rooms of private collectors but were originally preserved in Benin’s royal place‚ Benin City. The debate over who should own them is also controversial. They never used
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such a degree; many British people thought Elgin had committed acts of cultural vandalism. In 1816‚ he was forced to sell the sculptures to the British Government to alleviate a great debt. Prior to the transaction between Elgin and Britain‚ a Parliamentary committee was selected to debate the legality of Elgin’s ownership. The British government decided to purchase the sculptures from Lord Elgin at half his investment and exclaimed they would be better cared for by their museum than returning back
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theft of art is often controversial. The removal of art‚ especially ancient objects taken from the county of origin by colonizers can be defined as theft. In 1846‚ the Elgin Marbles were removed from Greece by Thomas Bruce and shipped to the British Museum with permission of the Ottoman Empire. The removal of that classic marble statuary that once stood in the Parthenon is disputed to this
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