20 Cheeky Memes That Might End Up in the British Museum

The British Museum in London is famous for more than just its historical and cultural significance. In 2019, human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson told The Guardian that 'the trustees of the British Museum have become the world's largest receivers of stolen property, and the great majority of their loot is not even on public display.' Some of the museum's most famous stolen artifacts include the Elgin Marbles—a collection of classical Greek sculptures, Hoa Hakananai'a—a sculpture taken from Orongo on Easter Island, hundreds of metal plaques and sculptures known as the Benin Bronzes from Nigeria, and the Rosetta Stone—an ancient granodiorite stele from Egypt. Lately there's been a lot of cheeky memes floating around referring to the British Museum's reputation for being a bunch of institutional looters—keep scrolling to see some of our favorites.

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