Berlin’s Humboldt Forum is reigniting a debate over who has the right to own and display Africa’s heritage.
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TortoiseCancel The Museum? | Germany’s Game of Thrones
If restitution advocates have their way, Berlin’s new Humboldt Forum may mark the beginning of the end of an era in which western museums served as humble custodians of other peoples’ things.
“Hermann Baumann wasn’t yet a Nazi when he set sail to Angola in search of Chokwe treasure.”
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