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Isn’t there a conspiracy theory that everything on show at the British Museum is a replica anyway and that the real artifacts are carefully stored elsewhere?

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echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
There’s a lot of unfounded stupid conspiracy theories but the thing about stupid conspiracy theory is this that they’re stupid.

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- tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  For me it’s a conspiracy theory (and most likely untrue) - but it’s quite an interesting one rather than “stupid”. Raises ideas about authenticity and what people are doing when they go to look at artifacts in museums. There HAVE been paintings, for instance, hung in galleries for years that have turned out to be forgeries but - for a long time people were happy staring at the “art”. Also, ones that have been restored beyond a point where they are pretty much not the original piece. How much would it alter things if the Marbles were all replaced with exact replicas at the British Museum?
  
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  - echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    How much would it alter things if the Marbles were all replaced with exact replicas at the British Museum?
    
    What would be the point in doing that? There are lots of replicas in museums but they tend to get labelled as such and they serve a purpose beyond just looking at them. Look at York Museum practically everything in there is replica, it’s all for the purpose of demonstrating history.
    
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