The restitutionist premise, that whatever was made in a country must return to an original

geographical site, would empty both the British Museum and the other great museums of the world.

                                                         — The British Museum, Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities








References



Museum accession number 1987,0314.1. China & South Asia Collection, The British Museum, online.
“Parthenon: Why the British Museum Cannot and Does Not Want to Lend Its Sculptures of the

Parthenon.”, online , Dr. Robert Anderson, 2003.