https://timey.org/tags/museums/ Recent content in Museums on Timey.org Hugo en-us Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timey.org/the-elgin-marbles-argument-has-no-clean-answer/ Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timey.org/the-elgin-marbles-argument-has-no-clean-answer/ Thomas Bruce, the seventh Earl of Elgin, arrived as British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1799 and left, between 1801 and 1812, with approximately half the surviving sculptural decoration of the Parthenon. This is the basic fact around which everything else — the legal argument, the cultural argument, the moral argument, the counter-argument, and the occasional productive silence — has been organized for the better part of two centuries.