British museum to send treasures back to Africa to 'give them meaning' - even though they were bought legally
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British museum to send treasures back to Africa to 'give them meaning' - even though they were bought legally.
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A museum will send treasures back to Africa to "give them meaning" - despite the artefacts being bought legally.Brighton and Hove Museums will send its historic jewellery and accessories to Botswana, their country of origin.Museums have faced demands to "return" artefacts before, but bosses offered a new explanation for why these ones deserved to be shipped abroad.Curators said returning them to their original African "context" would give them a significance they lacked in Britain.
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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Portia Tremlett, the curator of world cultures at Brighton and Hove Museums, said: "This repatriation represents an important step in reconnecting these artefacts with the communities, histories and knowledge systems that give them meaning."She said the return of the artefacts could be the "start of something" and hoped other museums would "follow the example".The 45 objects were collected in the 19th century by missionary Rev William Charles Willoughby, who was respected in...
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