Parthenon Marbles British Museum

The parthenon was built as a temple dedicated to the goddess athena.
Parthenon marbles british museum. Ian jenkins the parthenon sculptures in the british museum british museum press 2007 ian jenkins greek architecture and its sculpture in the british museum british museum press 2006 mary beard the parthenon profile 2002 william st clair lord elgin and the marbles 3rd edition oxford university press 1998. The acropolis museum allows the parthenon sculptures that are in athens to be appreciated against the backdrop of ancient greek and athenian history. The trustees of the british museum make the following statement on the museum website in response to arguments for the relocation of the parthenon marbles to the acropolis museum. It was the centrepiece of an ambitious building programme on the acropolis of athens.
The objects were removed from the parthenon at athens and from other ancient buildings and shipped to england by arrangement of thomas bruce 7th lord elgin who was british. The parthenon marbles a major money making display at the british museum have been the subject of an ongoing dispute between greece and the uk. In 1801 a british nobleman stripped the parthenon of many of its sculptures and took them to england. Elgin marbles collection of ancient greek sculptures and architectural details in the british museum london where they are now called the parthenon sculptures.
The 2 500 year old sculptures were illegally torn off the parthenon in the 1800s taken to england and sold to the museum in 1816 by lord elgin. Controversy over their acquisition by the british museum continues to this day.