The Brutish Museums: ÌMỌ̀ DÁRA in Conversation with Dan Hicks
Автор: ÌMỌ̀ DÁRA
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Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of Benin City, Nigeria.
Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections. The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums.
Join us for this talk with Dan Hicks, curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum and Professor of archaeology at the University of Oxford, where he makes a case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.
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