Charles Thomas Newton – The Successful Career of a 19th Century British Archaeologist Sir Charles Thomas Newton (1816 – 1894) was a 19th century British archaeologist who served the British government from various diplomatic posts across the Mediterranean and as the first appointed keeper of Greek and Roman antiquities at the British Museum. His work record as an archaeologist included excavations at various sites in what is today Turkey and Greece. These excavations led to his crowning achievement
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beliefs. This does not‚ however‚ excuse allowing past injustices to go uncorrected. Many of the worlds most prestigious museums are filled with trophies of colonial expansion (Rubenstein 2004271) obtained by veritable vandalism (Barringer 199821-23). It is no consolation that the responsible parties are long dead. In fact‚ the heart of the issue is the legitimacy of those museums themselves. Created to feed the imperial desire to show their dominance over non-western cultures‚ their exhibits consist
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material is a very topical one‚ with this year seeing a statue of Aphrodite being returned to Sicily by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles‚ the Boston Museum of Fine Arts re-uniting the statue of the “Weary Herakles” to Turkey (see fig 1 below)‚ the Minneapolis Institute of Arts sending back a Greek krater showing a Dionysian procession to Puglia‚ Italy‚ and Berlin’s Pergamon Museum returning the Hattusa Sphinx of Hittite origin to Turkey almost 100 years after German archaeologists had excavated
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MUSEUMS AND THEIR VOICES A CONTEMPORARY STUDY OF THE BENIN BRONZES WRITTEN BY Charlotta Dohlvik SUPERVISORS Staffan Lundén and Peter Davis Master’s Dissertation‚ May 2006 International Museum Studies‚ Museion‚ Göteborg University 1 ABSTRACT........................................................................................................................................................... 4 1. BACKGROUND ...........................................................................
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country and put it in their own museum for visitors to see. This document has so much importance to the United State of America and it just would not be right for someone else to be showing it off. This is the issue that has risen with the Elgin Marbles. These marbles hold such a large part of Greek history and art but they are being seen by others in the British Museum. The Greeks have tried for decades to get these important items returned but the British Museum just does not want to let them
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further destroyed‚ or he bought them and re-sold them to the British Museum. Whether Lord Elgin‚ ambassador to the then ruling Ottoman empire‚ had the authority to handle the Marbles presents great confusion‚ “[a]s to whether Elgin had legal authority to remove the marbles‚ the Ottomans being the ruling power‚ as the British maintain… “The problem is not legal‚” he [Mr. Pandermalis] decided. “It’s ethical and cultural” (Kimmelman).The British can return the Marbles to Greece‚ where they originally belonged
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of a nation’s power—and who should own it is central to the debate of returning artifacts to their countries of origin. The argument predominantly revolves around the marbles removed from the Parthenon by the British Lord Elgin. While the Greek government does not recognize the British Museum as the owner of the Parthenon Marbles‚ it can be said that they did acquire them by the proper means of the time. Other countries have asked for previously removed artifacts‚ such as the Rosetta Stone and the
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the sculptures were bought and placed in the British Museum by the government in 1816 including 247 Parthenon frieze‚ 15 metopes‚ and 17 pediments. I think that was the reason why the sculptures were called with the name Elgin Marbles. Greek government has requested the return of the sculptures to Athens‚ but the British Museum has refused to return them with the reason that the sculptures are protected better in Britain. In my opinion the British Museum should return those sculptures to Greece because
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Greece and the British Museum over the Parthenon Marbles. In the 19th century‚ Lord Elgin removed Marble sculptures from the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens and sold them to the British Museum where they have been on display since. Arguments of both legal and moral standing have been put forward by both parties‚ in regard to where the Marbles
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What does it tell us about cross cultural encounters? In 1892 the new vice-consul for the Benin river section Captain Henry Gallwey visited Benin and signed a treaty which made Benin a British protectorate‚ but as far as the British were concerned the treaty proved disappointing and by 1896 many British traders and officials were calling for military intervention‚ although the foreign office seemed reluctant to do this. On January 2nd 1897 the acting consul-general of the protectorate James
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