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Hello.
I am curious to know the opinion of people about such a phenomenon as cultural values, heritage, which have quite a material form and are exhibited in museums.
It's no secret that the largest museums in the world, like the Louvre, the Hermitage, the British Museum, have a huge share of their exhibits (which are owned by them), frankly speaking, do not originate from these countries... Well, there were no Egyptian pharaohs near St. Petersburg.
Of course, people always speak out in defense of museums that many exhibits, if they had not been exported from third countries, could simply have been lost to humanity, destroyed during riots, would have ended up in private collections or broken into pieces, in the case of jewelry. And this is often true.
However, time is changing, countries are changing and I periodically hear stories about what countries are... let's call them the progenitors of cultural heritage, the holders of these values ask museums to return them to their historical homeland.
For example, I know how many years there have been negotiations between Greece and Russia on the return of some exhibits from the time of Alexander the Great.
I'm curious to know how people of the Western world relate to such a phenomenon as the return of cultural values. Is it necessary to do this or should it be rejected, by the right of the strong or fearing that the artifacts of antiquity will be lost.
I am curious to know the opinion of people about such a phenomenon as cultural values, heritage, which have quite a material form and are exhibited in museums.
It's no secret that the largest museums in the world, like the Louvre, the Hermitage, the British Museum, have a huge share of their exhibits (which are owned by them), frankly speaking, do not originate from these countries... Well, there were no Egyptian pharaohs near St. Petersburg.
Of course, people always speak out in defense of museums that many exhibits, if they had not been exported from third countries, could simply have been lost to humanity, destroyed during riots, would have ended up in private collections or broken into pieces, in the case of jewelry. And this is often true.
However, time is changing, countries are changing and I periodically hear stories about what countries are... let's call them the progenitors of cultural heritage, the holders of these values ask museums to return them to their historical homeland.
For example, I know how many years there have been negotiations between Greece and Russia on the return of some exhibits from the time of Alexander the Great.
I'm curious to know how people of the Western world relate to such a phenomenon as the return of cultural values. Is it necessary to do this or should it be rejected, by the right of the strong or fearing that the artifacts of antiquity will be lost.