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Return the Elgin marbles to Greece on permanent loan.

Submitted on Tuesday 28th November 2023

Rejected on Thursday 7th December 2023

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Return the Elgin marbles to Greece on permanent loan.

Petition Details

Agree with the British Museum that they should be loaned back to Greece.

Additional Information

They were removed under dubious circumstances, Greece has now built a museum to house them.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.

The UK Government is not directly responsible for the Elgin Marbles, but we have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:

Amend the British Museum Act to allow the acceptance of repatriation requests: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/642081

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