Tiffany Jenkins on Plunder, Museums, and Marbles

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🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Should the British Museum return the Elgin Marbles, taken from the Parthenon in Athens about 200 years ago? What should be the purpose of museums, education or social justice? Listen as Tiffany Jenkins, author of Keeping Their Marbles, discusses these questions and more with EconTalk host Russ Roberts.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.7	Institution.
0:13.7	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives, but every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is January 4, 2023, and my guest is Tiffany Jenkins.
0:43.0	Our topic for today is our most recent book, Keeping Their Marbles, How the Treasures of
0:48.3	the Past Ended Up in Museums, and Why They Should Stay There.
0:53.0	Tiffany, welcome to econtalk.
0:54.8	Hello.
0:55.8	Let's start by talking about why museums are important in the abstract.
1:02.8	What happens to us as visitors to a museum that matters?
1:07.4	You know, they're interesting.
1:09.0	I look around.
1:10.0	There's artifacts and some of them are impressive.
1:13.7	Is anything more than that?
1:16.8	I find it's an encounter with the past and with the people of the past.
1:22.2	I noticed during COVID that you couldn't go to these places that you would go to regularly
1:27.0	and you took the granted.
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