Submitted on Sunday 1st March 2026
Rejected on Tuesday 14th April 2026
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Return the Elgin Marbles, Caryatid and associated artefacts to Greece
Amend the British Museum Act to allow the acceptance of repatriation requests.
Some artefacts exhibited or kept in the British Museum for hundreds of year, should now be returned to their countries of origin.
Amend this piece of legislation to at least give the British Museum trustees the freedom to accept repatriation requests and enter into negotiation for their return.
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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, Caryatid or associated artefacts, but we have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:
Amend the British Museum Act to allow artefact repatriation
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/749602
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