Museum Decolonization Accelerates

Following the Benin precedent, repatriation cascaded: the British Museum faced renewed Elgin Marbles pressure, US NAGPRA enforcement reached the Smithsonian, French colonial collections came under legal scrutiny. The cumulative effect reframed the entire Western museum as an institution built on contested custody, not a neutral archive of human achievement but an argument about whose achievement counts.

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• Wikipedia: Decolonization of museums