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Brazilian Conceptual Artist Ilê Sartuzi replaced a silver coin with a replica and deposited the original in a museum donation box in a commentary on cultural theft. With a collection of over 8 million individual works, the British Museum describes itself as “the first museum to cover all fields of human knowledge.” However, it has been increasingly plagued by repatriation claims aimed at some of its most famous acquisitions, including the Rosetta Stone and the Parthenon Marbles.