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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

British Museum: coughs

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

The Museum of History in Canada has a cool solution to this regarding some of their indigenous artifacts.

They either come to an agreement with the people who the historical item belongs to for the museum to keep it, or they give it back with either a placard explaining why the item is no longer at the museum, or reproduction in its place with a sign explaining that its a repro.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hm, why can they not return the artifacts instead?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Some of those artifacts have questionable ownership claims. Its not obvious who exactly they belong to. It would be easy enough to return something to a major museum at the country of origin, but for example the Benin bronze statues have claims from nigeria the country and the royalty, who plan to integrate it to their private collection, aka we would be "returning" an important artifact to some kleptocrats safe.

Also nigerian museums are notoriously famous for "loosing" artifacts which then appear on the black market. Sone are even melted down and sold at the price of the materials.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Because the museum curators don't want to. Then the "morality" of stealing from someone who has the object but didn't take it them self comes up.

There isn't a reason other than ego.