“We’ve long been entirely comfortable that if we had legal title to an object, then certainly we were entitled to keep it and care for it. But now, we’re going beyond legal title and asking, should we own this, knowing the circumstances under which it came into our ownership?”
Kevin Gover, under secretary for museums and culture at the Smithsonian
The Smithsonian Institution plans to return most of its collection of 39 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. A move following institutional review of its collection practices and the ethics behind them.
Read the full article in the New York Times, published 08 March 2022.
Is this not an important precedent for the British Museum to consider?
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