Elgin Marble Argument in a New Light

Britain used to say that Athens had no adequate place to put the Elgin Marbles,
the more than half of the Parthenon frieze, metopes and pediments that Lord
Elgin spirited off when he was ambassador to the Ottoman Empire two centuries
ago. Since 1816 they have been prizes of the British Museum.

So the new museum that Bernard Tschumi, the Swiss-born architect, has devised
near the base of the Acropolis is a $200 million, 226,000-square-foot,
state-of-the-art rebuttal to Britain's argument.

more here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/arts/design/24abroad.html?th&emc=th