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fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

Can We Meme the British Museum Into Doing the Right Thing?

The British Museum retains vast looted artifacts, resists repatriation, employs opaque institutional rhetoric, and faces sustained public scorn and reputational crises.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Restitution row: how Nigeria's new home for the Benin bronzes ended up with clay replicas

In a corner of the new Museum of West African Art, visitors can marvel at a sample display of the cultural treasures that adorned the royal palace that once stood in its place: a proud cockerel, a plaque with three mighty warriors, a bust of a king with a glorious beaded collar. The artefacts, collectively known as the Benin bronzes, were looted by British colonial forces who went on to burn down the palace in a punitive expedition in 1897.
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