“Nereid Monument”: the temple exhibited in the British Museum. The interesting thing about this gallery is its scale; 1:1. The temple’s size is 10.15x6.8m, and height is 5.15 m. It belongs to 380 BC. Since the British government wanted to protect this temple they brought this temple’s pieces from Turkey to England by sheep and reconstructed. Owing to the change of its place, maybe the temple is protected against the weather conditions, thieves, and to be forgotten, but this protection attempt leads to abolishing the history at the same time. Normally, we are accustomed to see historical ruins in museums, but building a space (historical temple) in a different space (museum) is the spectacle and in my opinion not ethical. Scale and the original stones result in originality, so it is real, but people do not use it as a temple, which is why it is not a real temple. Owing to the British Museum’s information papers about this temple, people believe that it has been carried from Turkey and it is not a copy as there is not any more the original of this temple.
