Comment on British Museum is digitizing its entire collection in response to recent thefts | All of that scanning will cost over $12 million.

db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• cave@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Of course not. People can’t be trusted to take care of their own historical artifacts. Britain will take better care of them. If they want to see it, they can just pay to fly across the world to see them. It’s surely better this way.

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  • fubo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not currently up to the British Museum; it’s up to Parliament. Repatriating artifacts is currently illegal under UK law.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum_Act_1963

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We can’t do it because it’s against the law that we made that says it’s illegal.

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    • db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I am shocked! Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

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    • PeachMan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure, but I don’t see any of the leadership at the museum advocating against that law.

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      • fubo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Where have you checked?

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