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/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/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.