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as a middle eastern

fuck the british museum true 🙁🙁🙁

wait oh my god - i just checked the 'Pakistan' section of the british museum after you mentioned the Greek artefacts (bc i'm british but pakistani ethnically) and under the items it says 'found/acquired'

are they joking???

like obviously they're not going to write 'stolen' but come ON. they make it seem like they salvaged it from a junkyard and gave it new life rather than stealing it

I love you guys for allowing me to screech about this but LISTEN- it gets worse.

First of all, they used to block people on Twitter when they would make jokes about the theft. The only thing they don't know how to take is jokes, apparently.

in 2017, they tweeted AND I QUOTE "We aim to be understandable by 16year olds. Sometimes Asian names can be confusing so we have to be careful about using too many in our displays." Be SO fucking for real, you won't even write down what we are looking at?????????

THEY HAVE AN ENTIRE SECTION HOSTING OVER 6K HUMAN REMAINS. FROM AROUND THE WORLD.

They have millions of objects (approximately 13 million to be exact, 8 of which are foreign), and they can only showcase a handful at the time, so the rest just ROTS in storage. The largest amount of objects they have obtained from Iraq. Greece is in the top 7.

I’ve just learned that The British Museum STAMPS their manuscripts with red ink

That last one has Maimonedies’ fucking signature… I am fuming

Capolavori dell'arte egizia, l'arte per i morti (illustri)

Coffin of Hornedjitef, Ptolemaic Egypt, circa 240 BC

from The British Museum

“The entire British museum is an active crime scene” - John Oliver

“The entire British museum is an active crime scene” - John Oliver

I went to the British museum and it made me sad for this reason. Someone lovingly buried their wife, their father, their brother with all their favourite things. The food and clothes they liked, pretty bowls and cups, so that they may be with it forever. Painted their coffins with specific motifs.

And now they're separated all over the place in a land far away. The pots in one wing, the coffins in another and the skeletons in a third.

people thousands of years ago had memorials for their dead loved ones carved into stone as if to whisper into the ages, “do you know that i loved them?” and we get to whisper back, thousands of years later, “i do. i do know that you loved them.“

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The Field Museum, Chicago, United States

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suprised ya didn't take it

I want one of those scenes in a dude bro film where “tomboy” chick has to wear a dress to go undercover or whatever, but instead of the guys drooling as she walks down the stairs, they’re like “k. U need to stop. Go put the cargo pants back on. You look super uncomfortable and awkward in that. Brutus, you go be the fake prostitute.”

ID in alt

i just remembered that a normal thing at my house that we use daily is also kept in the british museum as one of the stolen artifacts. good night.

I think the Louvre and British Museum should engage in Spy vs Spy shenanigans over the Mona Lisa

There are disadvantages to where I live. It’s ruinously expensive. There’s no horizon. I have no friends in popping-in distance. The pollution is literally killing me, to the point where I’m 2-3 years past a doctor telling me “No, seriously, move.”

But.

I can wake up in the morning, feel a bit shit, and go “You know what? Fukkit, I’m going to the British Museum for the afternoon.”

And I might even walk home afterwards.

Small child freaking out in front of an empty sarcophagus:

“YESBUTMUMMYWHERE’SITGONE?!”

Bunnies!

Indiana Jones, but he's raiding the British Museum to return the artifacts to the proper countries Museums.

“The entire British museum is an active crime scene” - John Oliver

british museum, london

“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.” - Jean de La Bruyere