The refusal of the British Museum to return the Parthenon Marbles to their country of origin on the grounds of a 'cosmopolitan ideology of culture' could be hiding a nostalgia for imperialism; holding on to the symbols of an imperialist past, the loot taken by the 'civilized' British from the 'barbaric' Mediterraneans when the British Empire was the major power in global politics. While violent Imperialist acts, like wars-invasions, cannot be justified any more in the eyes of the public, Museums can exhibit the loot of the imperialist adventure without much pressure from the press or the citizens. Could the repatriation of the Parthenon Marbles put the final-symbolic gravestone on the ghost of Imperialism?