Jenkins: Why Marbles Should Stay In Britain

Tiffany Jenkins argues that the Parthenon Marbles belong where they are. “It is vital that the marbles remain in the British Museum. Not because the marbles look better there, because the British Museum owns them, or because the Greeks can’t look after them. Quite simply, the marbles take on a higher meaning in Bloomsbury than they ever could in Athens. In the British Museum the marbles can be seen among the artefacts of human history.”