The Parthenon art museum will return 248 artifacts to a museum in Mexico

The Metro-owned Parthenon art museum will return 248 pre-Columbian artifacts, which it has owned for decades, to a museum in Mexico later this summer. Why it matters: There's a growing focus globally on how museums came to possess items in their collections, from Jewish-owned artwork stolen during the Holocaust to artifacts acquired during Colonial conquests. The exhibit turns the focus on the Parthenon's own collection combined with new works by Nashville-based artist José Véra González.