My cousin argued that the Sutton Hoo helmet replica should stay in the British Museum forever

We were looking at pictures from my trip to London, and he said moving it would be 'erasing history'. But my friend who works at a museum in Oslo thinks important finds should sometimes go back closer to where they were dug up, for context. It made me rethink who really 'owns' a discovery. What do you all think about where major artifacts should live?

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mia5927d ago

You said moving it would be 'erasing history', but I feel like keeping everything in one big museum can erase the local story. Seeing the helmet near the burial site and the other local finds would show a fuller picture of that place and time. Doesn't that give you a better understanding than seeing it alone in a room in London?

piper_thompson317d ago

Oh sure, let's just put every single old thing back in the ground where we found it. Next you'll want me to go look at the Rosetta Stone in a ditch in Egypt. I get the local story angle, but come on, how many people can actually travel to every random field where something cool was dug up? Isn't the point to let as many people as possible see it and learn something? Otherwise it's just a secret for the locals.