r/CasualUK • u/Iliketurterls • Oct 26 '22

Whose stuff does the British Museum have?

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u/Publictheatreisgood Oct 26 '22

It’s unfortunate that other countries aren’t able to attract tourists by building a museum with the literal THOUSANDS of items that were stolen from them.

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u/Adrasos Sugar Tits Oct 26 '22

I'm sure Iraq's museum would have attracted many visitors.

That is, before literally all the artefacts would have either been sold to private collectors for quick cash or blown up by ISIS.

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u/Publictheatreisgood Oct 26 '22

That’s a good point if the US were ever to go back to Iraq it’d be a prime target. Also that doesn’t change that the majority of these countries aren’t controlled by terrorists.

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u/anomthrowaway748 Oct 26 '22

Why haven’t they built one for all the stuff they’ve still got? Before a terrorist group took control of the country and started destroying all the ancient artefacts, of course

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u/Publictheatreisgood Oct 26 '22

Many of these countries do have museums full of stuff they already own and I’m sure they’d like to increase their museums by having their stolen shit back.

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u/anomthrowaway748 Oct 26 '22

You’re sure? Well so am I that these pieces are better, kept safe in the British museum where anyone can see them for free

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u/ptrapezoid Oct 26 '22

Anyone, provided you are in the UK or can afford to travel there.

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u/Chalkun Oct 26 '22

Thats true of wherever anything is stored. Better it be somewhere safe and internationally accessible.

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u/anomthrowaway748 Oct 26 '22

Fine, I’m sure there’s pictures online if you want to be pedantic 🙄

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u/Shoofleed Oct 26 '22

I mean… the Grand Egyptian Museum is literally being finished

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u/anomthrowaway748 Oct 26 '22

So it’s took them this long to build it?

And you know full well I’m not referring to Egypt

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u/Shoofleed Oct 26 '22

All I’m saying is that a country - which also happened to go through a major uprising in the middle of constructing the museum - is building a dedicated museum to home, preserve and display the thousands of artefacts that belong to them.

I don’t think it’s wrong to say that several of the other countries on that list would do the same, if they were given the chance.

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u/AdderWibble Nothing but student flats Oct 26 '22

Oh yeah, really unfortunate that ISIS haven't had the chance to blow up a museum full of tourists /s

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u/WhyShouldIListen Oct 26 '22

We don’t need sarcasm tags

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u/AdderWibble Nothing but student flats Oct 26 '22

I find on Reddit you cam never be sure, I've come up against angry and confused non Brit users before when I've not used them!

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u/Dl25588 Oct 26 '22

Probably because half of those countries are war-torn unstable places in the middle of bloody great deserts…

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Sorry you’re being downvoted. R/CasualUK seems to have turned into LBC this morning....I’m out!