Editing Elgin Marbles (section)

==Loans and copies==
The British Museum has made plaster casts of the marbles and distributed them to many museums around the world.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":7" /> In 2022, The Institute of Digital Archaeology (IDA) in Oxford asked the British Museum to scan its marbles from the Parthenon in order to make robot-carved marble replicas. The museum, however, declined the request and the Greek government declined to comment on the project.<ref name=":9">{{Cite web |date=8 July 2022 |title=The Robot Guerrilla Campaign to Recreate the Elgin Marbles |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/science/elgin-marbles-3d-print.html/ |access-date=19 August 2023 |work=New York Times}}</ref>

The British Museum lent the figure of a river-god, possibly the river [[Ilisus]], to the [[Hermitage Museum]] in Saint Petersburg to celebrate its 250th anniversary.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://blog.britishmuseum.org/2014/12/05/loan-of-a-parthenon-sculpture-to-the-hermitage-a-marble-ambassador-of-a-european-ideal/ |title=Loan to the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg |publisher=britishmuseum.org |access-date=8 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231192906/http://blog.britishmuseum.org/2014/12/05/loan-of-a-parthenon-sculpture-to-the-hermitage-a-marble-ambassador-of-a-european-ideal/ |archive-date=31 December 2014}}</ref> It was on display there from 6 December 2014 until 18 January 2015. This was the first time the British Museum had lent part of its Parthenon Marbles collection and it caused some controversy.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/06/world/europe/elgin-marbles-lent-to-hermitage-museum.html?_r=0 
|title=Greek Statue Travels Again, but Not to Greece |newspaper=www.nytimes.com |date=5 December 2014 |access-date=8 December 2014|last1=Erlanger |first1=Steven }}</ref> The British Museum states that it is open to lending its marbles from the Parthenon to Greece but the Greek government does not wish to agree to the standard clause acknowledging the British Museum's ownership of any loan items.<ref name=":9" />