New Acropolis Museum Is Itself A Reason To Return The Elgin Marbles (Or Is It?)

Michael Kimmelman: “So the new museum that Bernard Tschumi, the Swiss-born architect, has devised near the base of the Acropolis is a $200 million, 226,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art rebuttal to Britain’s argument” that only the British Museum can take proper care of the Elgin Marbles. “‘But Greek archaeology has always been a kind of fantasy,’ Antonis Liakos, a leading Greek historian, noted the other day. The repatriation argument, relying on claims of historical integrity, itself distorts history.”