(GREEK NEWS AGENDA) In an article published in Time Magazine (Who Owns History? – February, 21) Richard Lacayo explores the notion of cultural property and “universal museums”, presenting opinions and arguments from all sides. One of the Museum professionals he talks to is Dimitrios Pandermalis: “Pandermalis is president of the organization behind the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, initially conceived as a standing rebuke to the British Museum’s continued possession of the most passionately disputed cultural property, the 5th century B.C. Elgin Marbles…,” he writes.
Secretariat General of Information: World Media on Greece – Acropolis and the Parthenon Marbles; Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures Campaigns: ww.parthenoninternational.org; www.elginism.com
New Acropolis Museum Website - New Material: Video about the Construction and the Transport of the Exhibits; Childrens’s Book: ”The Museum and the Excavation: Now for young and old“
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