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Savoy and Sarr\u2019s 190-page report is currently available to read online<\/a> and will be released in book form tomorrow from publishing house Philippe Rey-Seuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: On the Heels of a Dramatic Restitution Report, France Is Returning 26 Artifacts to Benin. Will Other Countries Follow Suit? | artnet News<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"france-is-returning-26-artifacts-to-benin-will-other-countries-follow-suit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/macron-26-benin-bronzes-restitution-1402570","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":54280,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_content":"\n\nWith colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade came the loss of Africa\u2019s artifacts and items of cultural heritage. These items now sit at museums and displays around the world. For years, debates on repatriating looted objects have been ongoing in Europe and the United States. There are also interesting movements like those lobbying British institutions for the return of Nigerian bronze artifacts looted from the Benin kingdom in 1897. However, the conversation started last year.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France recently made the return of African artifacts  \u201ca top priority\u201d for his country. He said that \u201cAfrican heritage can\u2019t just be in European private collections and museums.<\/em>\u201d Ethiopia, the East African nation in the Horn of Africa, filed a formal restitution claim in 2007 asking that the UK return hundreds of ancient artifacts and manuscripts. These items were taken in 1868 during the capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.\n\nALSO READ: France Returns Stolen 19th Century Artifact To Senegal<\/a><\/strong>\n

According to the Association For the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET<\/a>), only 10 of the 468 items<\/a> known to have been seized at Maqdala have been returned. However, about 80 of those items are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/a> This includes a number of tabots believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on earth\u2014a symbol of the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n\n

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Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740. Museum no. M.27-2005. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London Responds<\/h2>\nThe Ethiopian government\u2019s claim to the items was denied by the museum. However, the Museum\u2019s Director, Tristam Hunt, suggested a compromise in an interview with UK\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. In Hunt's opinion, \u201cThe speediest way, if Ethiopia wants to have these items on display, is a long-term loan\u2026that would be the easiest way to manage it.\u201d\n\nALSO READ: Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?<\/a><\/strong>\n\nHunt said there were a number of reasons why a simple return was not possible. This includes the legal difficulties around deaccessioning and the \u201cphilosophical case for cosmopolitanism in museum collections.\u201d These items include a gold crown\u2014an important symbol of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Others are, a gold chalice and a royal wedding dress belonging to Queen Woyzaro Terunesh.\n\nQueen Terunesh was the second wife of the Ethiopian emperor, Tewodros. Also, she was the mother of Prince Alemayehu. The prince was brought to England where the government assumed responsibility for his care and education. They have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> (V&A) in London for the past 146 years. They are among 20 separate artifacts that will be on display for the exhibition which starts today, 5th April, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle which sought to secure the release of British hostages taken by Tewodros.\n\nRead More Here >><\/a><\/strong>","post_title":"Ethiopia Wants Its Looted Artifacts Returned And London Gives Interesting Response","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ethiopia-wants-colonial-era-looted-artifacts-returned-and-london-responds","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/thenerveafrica.com\/16619\/uk-museum-offers-return-ethiopias-stolen-treasures-loan\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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\u201cThe looted art must be returned, this also applies to cultural assets from colonial contexts,\u201d a spokesperson for the German minister of culture Monika Gr\u00fctters told Monopol<\/a>. \u201cThis presupposes provenance research, which Germany has clearly intensified in recent years and is continuing to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savoy and Sarr\u2019s 190-page report is currently available to read online<\/a> and will be released in book form tomorrow from publishing house Philippe Rey-Seuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: On the Heels of a Dramatic Restitution Report, France Is Returning 26 Artifacts to Benin. Will Other Countries Follow Suit? | artnet News<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"france-is-returning-26-artifacts-to-benin-will-other-countries-follow-suit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/macron-26-benin-bronzes-restitution-1402570","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":54280,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_content":"\n\nWith colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade came the loss of Africa\u2019s artifacts and items of cultural heritage. These items now sit at museums and displays around the world. For years, debates on repatriating looted objects have been ongoing in Europe and the United States. There are also interesting movements like those lobbying British institutions for the return of Nigerian bronze artifacts looted from the Benin kingdom in 1897. However, the conversation started last year.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France recently made the return of African artifacts  \u201ca top priority\u201d for his country. He said that \u201cAfrican heritage can\u2019t just be in European private collections and museums.<\/em>\u201d Ethiopia, the East African nation in the Horn of Africa, filed a formal restitution claim in 2007 asking that the UK return hundreds of ancient artifacts and manuscripts. These items were taken in 1868 during the capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.\n\nALSO READ: France Returns Stolen 19th Century Artifact To Senegal<\/a><\/strong>\n

According to the Association For the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET<\/a>), only 10 of the 468 items<\/a> known to have been seized at Maqdala have been returned. However, about 80 of those items are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/a> This includes a number of tabots believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on earth\u2014a symbol of the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n\n

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Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740. Museum no. M.27-2005. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London Responds<\/h2>\nThe Ethiopian government\u2019s claim to the items was denied by the museum. However, the Museum\u2019s Director, Tristam Hunt, suggested a compromise in an interview with UK\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. In Hunt's opinion, \u201cThe speediest way, if Ethiopia wants to have these items on display, is a long-term loan\u2026that would be the easiest way to manage it.\u201d\n\nALSO READ: Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?<\/a><\/strong>\n\nHunt said there were a number of reasons why a simple return was not possible. This includes the legal difficulties around deaccessioning and the \u201cphilosophical case for cosmopolitanism in museum collections.\u201d These items include a gold crown\u2014an important symbol of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Others are, a gold chalice and a royal wedding dress belonging to Queen Woyzaro Terunesh.\n\nQueen Terunesh was the second wife of the Ethiopian emperor, Tewodros. Also, she was the mother of Prince Alemayehu. The prince was brought to England where the government assumed responsibility for his care and education. They have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> (V&A) in London for the past 146 years. They are among 20 separate artifacts that will be on display for the exhibition which starts today, 5th April, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle which sought to secure the release of British hostages taken by Tewodros.\n\nRead More Here >><\/a><\/strong>","post_title":"Ethiopia Wants Its Looted Artifacts Returned And London Gives Interesting Response","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ethiopia-wants-colonial-era-looted-artifacts-returned-and-london-responds","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/thenerveafrica.com\/16619\/uk-museum-offers-return-ethiopias-stolen-treasures-loan\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
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The topic is of particular interest to Germany, too. Most of the objects headed for a show planned at the new cultural center in Berlin, the Humboldt Forum<\/a>, date from the colonial era. \u201cGerman museums will certainly follow suit,\u201d said Felicity Bodenstein. But the debate there is different than in France because Germany cannot pass one law to apply to all of its museums, which are under the jurisdiction of various regional governments. \u201cDecisions get made very differently in these countries so the timing and form of restitution will not be the same,\u201d Bodenstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe looted art must be returned, this also applies to cultural assets from colonial contexts,\u201d a spokesperson for the German minister of culture Monika Gr\u00fctters told Monopol<\/a>. \u201cThis presupposes provenance research, which Germany has clearly intensified in recent years and is continuing to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savoy and Sarr\u2019s 190-page report is currently available to read online<\/a> and will be released in book form tomorrow from publishing house Philippe Rey-Seuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: On the Heels of a Dramatic Restitution Report, France Is Returning 26 Artifacts to Benin. Will Other Countries Follow Suit? | artnet News<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"france-is-returning-26-artifacts-to-benin-will-other-countries-follow-suit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/macron-26-benin-bronzes-restitution-1402570","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":54280,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_content":"\n\nWith colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade came the loss of Africa\u2019s artifacts and items of cultural heritage. These items now sit at museums and displays around the world. For years, debates on repatriating looted objects have been ongoing in Europe and the United States. There are also interesting movements like those lobbying British institutions for the return of Nigerian bronze artifacts looted from the Benin kingdom in 1897. However, the conversation started last year.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France recently made the return of African artifacts  \u201ca top priority\u201d for his country. He said that \u201cAfrican heritage can\u2019t just be in European private collections and museums.<\/em>\u201d Ethiopia, the East African nation in the Horn of Africa, filed a formal restitution claim in 2007 asking that the UK return hundreds of ancient artifacts and manuscripts. These items were taken in 1868 during the capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.\n\nALSO READ: France Returns Stolen 19th Century Artifact To Senegal<\/a><\/strong>\n

According to the Association For the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET<\/a>), only 10 of the 468 items<\/a> known to have been seized at Maqdala have been returned. However, about 80 of those items are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/a> This includes a number of tabots believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on earth\u2014a symbol of the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n\n

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Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740. Museum no. M.27-2005. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London Responds<\/h2>\nThe Ethiopian government\u2019s claim to the items was denied by the museum. However, the Museum\u2019s Director, Tristam Hunt, suggested a compromise in an interview with UK\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. In Hunt's opinion, \u201cThe speediest way, if Ethiopia wants to have these items on display, is a long-term loan\u2026that would be the easiest way to manage it.\u201d\n\nALSO READ: Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?<\/a><\/strong>\n\nHunt said there were a number of reasons why a simple return was not possible. This includes the legal difficulties around deaccessioning and the \u201cphilosophical case for cosmopolitanism in museum collections.\u201d These items include a gold crown\u2014an important symbol of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Others are, a gold chalice and a royal wedding dress belonging to Queen Woyzaro Terunesh.\n\nQueen Terunesh was the second wife of the Ethiopian emperor, Tewodros. Also, she was the mother of Prince Alemayehu. The prince was brought to England where the government assumed responsibility for his care and education. They have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> (V&A) in London for the past 146 years. They are among 20 separate artifacts that will be on display for the exhibition which starts today, 5th April, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle which sought to secure the release of British hostages taken by Tewodros.\n\nRead More Here >><\/a><\/strong>","post_title":"Ethiopia Wants Its Looted Artifacts Returned And London Gives Interesting Response","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ethiopia-wants-colonial-era-looted-artifacts-returned-and-london-responds","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/thenerveafrica.com\/16619\/uk-museum-offers-return-ethiopias-stolen-treasures-loan\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
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\u201cWe need to use the extraordinary collections in museums to re-write the narrative of a one-sided history to a shared equitable and collaborative one. The British Museum is ready to play its part in that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topic is of particular interest to Germany, too. Most of the objects headed for a show planned at the new cultural center in Berlin, the Humboldt Forum<\/a>, date from the colonial era. \u201cGerman museums will certainly follow suit,\u201d said Felicity Bodenstein. But the debate there is different than in France because Germany cannot pass one law to apply to all of its museums, which are under the jurisdiction of various regional governments. \u201cDecisions get made very differently in these countries so the timing and form of restitution will not be the same,\u201d Bodenstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe looted art must be returned, this also applies to cultural assets from colonial contexts,\u201d a spokesperson for the German minister of culture Monika Gr\u00fctters told Monopol<\/a>. \u201cThis presupposes provenance research, which Germany has clearly intensified in recent years and is continuing to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savoy and Sarr\u2019s 190-page report is currently available to read online<\/a> and will be released in book form tomorrow from publishing house Philippe Rey-Seuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: On the Heels of a Dramatic Restitution Report, France Is Returning 26 Artifacts to Benin. Will Other Countries Follow Suit? | artnet News<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"france-is-returning-26-artifacts-to-benin-will-other-countries-follow-suit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/macron-26-benin-bronzes-restitution-1402570","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":54280,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_content":"\n\nWith colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade came the loss of Africa\u2019s artifacts and items of cultural heritage. These items now sit at museums and displays around the world. For years, debates on repatriating looted objects have been ongoing in Europe and the United States. There are also interesting movements like those lobbying British institutions for the return of Nigerian bronze artifacts looted from the Benin kingdom in 1897. However, the conversation started last year.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France recently made the return of African artifacts  \u201ca top priority\u201d for his country. He said that \u201cAfrican heritage can\u2019t just be in European private collections and museums.<\/em>\u201d Ethiopia, the East African nation in the Horn of Africa, filed a formal restitution claim in 2007 asking that the UK return hundreds of ancient artifacts and manuscripts. These items were taken in 1868 during the capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.\n\nALSO READ: France Returns Stolen 19th Century Artifact To Senegal<\/a><\/strong>\n

According to the Association For the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET<\/a>), only 10 of the 468 items<\/a> known to have been seized at Maqdala have been returned. However, about 80 of those items are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/a> This includes a number of tabots believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on earth\u2014a symbol of the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n\n

\"\"<\/a>
Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740. Museum no. M.27-2005. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London Responds<\/h2>\nThe Ethiopian government\u2019s claim to the items was denied by the museum. However, the Museum\u2019s Director, Tristam Hunt, suggested a compromise in an interview with UK\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. In Hunt's opinion, \u201cThe speediest way, if Ethiopia wants to have these items on display, is a long-term loan\u2026that would be the easiest way to manage it.\u201d\n\nALSO READ: Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?<\/a><\/strong>\n\nHunt said there were a number of reasons why a simple return was not possible. This includes the legal difficulties around deaccessioning and the \u201cphilosophical case for cosmopolitanism in museum collections.\u201d These items include a gold crown\u2014an important symbol of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Others are, a gold chalice and a royal wedding dress belonging to Queen Woyzaro Terunesh.\n\nQueen Terunesh was the second wife of the Ethiopian emperor, Tewodros. Also, she was the mother of Prince Alemayehu. The prince was brought to England where the government assumed responsibility for his care and education. They have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> (V&A) in London for the past 146 years. They are among 20 separate artifacts that will be on display for the exhibition which starts today, 5th April, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle which sought to secure the release of British hostages taken by Tewodros.\n\nRead More Here >><\/a><\/strong>","post_title":"Ethiopia Wants Its Looted Artifacts Returned And London Gives Interesting Response","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ethiopia-wants-colonial-era-looted-artifacts-returned-and-london-responds","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/thenerveafrica.com\/16619\/uk-museum-offers-return-ethiopias-stolen-treasures-loan\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
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\u201cThese are complicated histories and a transparent focus on the provenance of objects is indispensable,\u201d the museum\u2019s trustees wrote in a statement. They pointed out that the British Museum has already committed to lending objects to Benin City\u2019s planned new Royal Museum<\/a> on a rotating basis, and that it is part of their mission to make the collection as widely accessible as possible to a global public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to use the extraordinary collections in museums to re-write the narrative of a one-sided history to a shared equitable and collaborative one. The British Museum is ready to play its part in that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topic is of particular interest to Germany, too. Most of the objects headed for a show planned at the new cultural center in Berlin, the Humboldt Forum<\/a>, date from the colonial era. \u201cGerman museums will certainly follow suit,\u201d said Felicity Bodenstein. But the debate there is different than in France because Germany cannot pass one law to apply to all of its museums, which are under the jurisdiction of various regional governments. \u201cDecisions get made very differently in these countries so the timing and form of restitution will not be the same,\u201d Bodenstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe looted art must be returned, this also applies to cultural assets from colonial contexts,\u201d a spokesperson for the German minister of culture Monika Gr\u00fctters told Monopol<\/a>. \u201cThis presupposes provenance research, which Germany has clearly intensified in recent years and is continuing to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savoy and Sarr\u2019s 190-page report is currently available to read online<\/a> and will be released in book form tomorrow from publishing house Philippe Rey-Seuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: On the Heels of a Dramatic Restitution Report, France Is Returning 26 Artifacts to Benin. Will Other Countries Follow Suit? | artnet News<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"france-is-returning-26-artifacts-to-benin-will-other-countries-follow-suit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/macron-26-benin-bronzes-restitution-1402570","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":54280,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_content":"\n\nWith colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade came the loss of Africa\u2019s artifacts and items of cultural heritage. These items now sit at museums and displays around the world. For years, debates on repatriating looted objects have been ongoing in Europe and the United States. There are also interesting movements like those lobbying British institutions for the return of Nigerian bronze artifacts looted from the Benin kingdom in 1897. However, the conversation started last year.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France recently made the return of African artifacts  \u201ca top priority\u201d for his country. He said that \u201cAfrican heritage can\u2019t just be in European private collections and museums.<\/em>\u201d Ethiopia, the East African nation in the Horn of Africa, filed a formal restitution claim in 2007 asking that the UK return hundreds of ancient artifacts and manuscripts. These items were taken in 1868 during the capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.\n\nALSO READ: France Returns Stolen 19th Century Artifact To Senegal<\/a><\/strong>\n

According to the Association For the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET<\/a>), only 10 of the 468 items<\/a> known to have been seized at Maqdala have been returned. However, about 80 of those items are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/a> This includes a number of tabots believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on earth\u2014a symbol of the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n\n

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Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740. Museum no. M.27-2005. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London Responds<\/h2>\nThe Ethiopian government\u2019s claim to the items was denied by the museum. However, the Museum\u2019s Director, Tristam Hunt, suggested a compromise in an interview with UK\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. In Hunt's opinion, \u201cThe speediest way, if Ethiopia wants to have these items on display, is a long-term loan\u2026that would be the easiest way to manage it.\u201d\n\nALSO READ: Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?<\/a><\/strong>\n\nHunt said there were a number of reasons why a simple return was not possible. This includes the legal difficulties around deaccessioning and the \u201cphilosophical case for cosmopolitanism in museum collections.\u201d These items include a gold crown\u2014an important symbol of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Others are, a gold chalice and a royal wedding dress belonging to Queen Woyzaro Terunesh.\n\nQueen Terunesh was the second wife of the Ethiopian emperor, Tewodros. Also, she was the mother of Prince Alemayehu. The prince was brought to England where the government assumed responsibility for his care and education. They have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> (V&A) in London for the past 146 years. They are among 20 separate artifacts that will be on display for the exhibition which starts today, 5th April, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle which sought to secure the release of British hostages taken by Tewodros.\n\nRead More Here >><\/a><\/strong>","post_title":"Ethiopia Wants Its Looted Artifacts Returned And London Gives Interesting Response","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ethiopia-wants-colonial-era-looted-artifacts-returned-and-london-responds","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/thenerveafrica.com\/16619\/uk-museum-offers-return-ethiopias-stolen-treasures-loan\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
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Plaques that form part of the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum. Photo by Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are complicated histories and a transparent focus on the provenance of objects is indispensable,\u201d the museum\u2019s trustees wrote in a statement. They pointed out that the British Museum has already committed to lending objects to Benin City\u2019s planned new Royal Museum<\/a> on a rotating basis, and that it is part of their mission to make the collection as widely accessible as possible to a global public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to use the extraordinary collections in museums to re-write the narrative of a one-sided history to a shared equitable and collaborative one. The British Museum is ready to play its part in that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topic is of particular interest to Germany, too. Most of the objects headed for a show planned at the new cultural center in Berlin, the Humboldt Forum<\/a>, date from the colonial era. \u201cGerman museums will certainly follow suit,\u201d said Felicity Bodenstein. But the debate there is different than in France because Germany cannot pass one law to apply to all of its museums, which are under the jurisdiction of various regional governments. \u201cDecisions get made very differently in these countries so the timing and form of restitution will not be the same,\u201d Bodenstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe looted art must be returned, this also applies to cultural assets from colonial contexts,\u201d a spokesperson for the German minister of culture Monika Gr\u00fctters told Monopol<\/a>. \u201cThis presupposes provenance research, which Germany has clearly intensified in recent years and is continuing to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savoy and Sarr\u2019s 190-page report is currently available to read online<\/a> and will be released in book form tomorrow from publishing house Philippe Rey-Seuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: On the Heels of a Dramatic Restitution Report, France Is Returning 26 Artifacts to Benin. Will Other Countries Follow Suit? | artnet News<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"france-is-returning-26-artifacts-to-benin-will-other-countries-follow-suit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/macron-26-benin-bronzes-restitution-1402570","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":54280,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_content":"\n\nWith colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade came the loss of Africa\u2019s artifacts and items of cultural heritage. These items now sit at museums and displays around the world. For years, debates on repatriating looted objects have been ongoing in Europe and the United States. There are also interesting movements like those lobbying British institutions for the return of Nigerian bronze artifacts looted from the Benin kingdom in 1897. However, the conversation started last year.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France recently made the return of African artifacts  \u201ca top priority\u201d for his country. He said that \u201cAfrican heritage can\u2019t just be in European private collections and museums.<\/em>\u201d Ethiopia, the East African nation in the Horn of Africa, filed a formal restitution claim in 2007 asking that the UK return hundreds of ancient artifacts and manuscripts. These items were taken in 1868 during the capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.\n\nALSO READ: France Returns Stolen 19th Century Artifact To Senegal<\/a><\/strong>\n

According to the Association For the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET<\/a>), only 10 of the 468 items<\/a> known to have been seized at Maqdala have been returned. However, about 80 of those items are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/a> This includes a number of tabots believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on earth\u2014a symbol of the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n\n

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Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740. Museum no. M.27-2005. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London Responds<\/h2>\nThe Ethiopian government\u2019s claim to the items was denied by the museum. However, the Museum\u2019s Director, Tristam Hunt, suggested a compromise in an interview with UK\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. In Hunt's opinion, \u201cThe speediest way, if Ethiopia wants to have these items on display, is a long-term loan\u2026that would be the easiest way to manage it.\u201d\n\nALSO READ: Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?<\/a><\/strong>\n\nHunt said there were a number of reasons why a simple return was not possible. This includes the legal difficulties around deaccessioning and the \u201cphilosophical case for cosmopolitanism in museum collections.\u201d These items include a gold crown\u2014an important symbol of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Others are, a gold chalice and a royal wedding dress belonging to Queen Woyzaro Terunesh.\n\nQueen Terunesh was the second wife of the Ethiopian emperor, Tewodros. Also, she was the mother of Prince Alemayehu. The prince was brought to England where the government assumed responsibility for his care and education. They have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> (V&A) in London for the past 146 years. They are among 20 separate artifacts that will be on display for the exhibition which starts today, 5th April, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle which sought to secure the release of British hostages taken by Tewodros.\n\nRead More Here >><\/a><\/strong>","post_title":"Ethiopia Wants Its Looted Artifacts Returned And London Gives Interesting Response","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ethiopia-wants-colonial-era-looted-artifacts-returned-and-london-responds","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/thenerveafrica.com\/16619\/uk-museum-offers-return-ethiopias-stolen-treasures-loan\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
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\"Plaques
Plaques that form part of the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum. Photo by Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are complicated histories and a transparent focus on the provenance of objects is indispensable,\u201d the museum\u2019s trustees wrote in a statement. They pointed out that the British Museum has already committed to lending objects to Benin City\u2019s planned new Royal Museum<\/a> on a rotating basis, and that it is part of their mission to make the collection as widely accessible as possible to a global public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to use the extraordinary collections in museums to re-write the narrative of a one-sided history to a shared equitable and collaborative one. The British Museum is ready to play its part in that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topic is of particular interest to Germany, too. Most of the objects headed for a show planned at the new cultural center in Berlin, the Humboldt Forum<\/a>, date from the colonial era. \u201cGerman museums will certainly follow suit,\u201d said Felicity Bodenstein. But the debate there is different than in France because Germany cannot pass one law to apply to all of its museums, which are under the jurisdiction of various regional governments. \u201cDecisions get made very differently in these countries so the timing and form of restitution will not be the same,\u201d Bodenstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe looted art must be returned, this also applies to cultural assets from colonial contexts,\u201d a spokesperson for the German minister of culture Monika Gr\u00fctters told Monopol<\/a>. \u201cThis presupposes provenance research, which Germany has clearly intensified in recent years and is continuing to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savoy and Sarr\u2019s 190-page report is currently available to read online<\/a> and will be released in book form tomorrow from publishing house Philippe Rey-Seuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: On the Heels of a Dramatic Restitution Report, France Is Returning 26 Artifacts to Benin. Will Other Countries Follow Suit? | artnet News<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"france-is-returning-26-artifacts-to-benin-will-other-countries-follow-suit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/macron-26-benin-bronzes-restitution-1402570","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":54280,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_content":"\n\nWith colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade came the loss of Africa\u2019s artifacts and items of cultural heritage. These items now sit at museums and displays around the world. For years, debates on repatriating looted objects have been ongoing in Europe and the United States. There are also interesting movements like those lobbying British institutions for the return of Nigerian bronze artifacts looted from the Benin kingdom in 1897. However, the conversation started last year.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France recently made the return of African artifacts  \u201ca top priority\u201d for his country. He said that \u201cAfrican heritage can\u2019t just be in European private collections and museums.<\/em>\u201d Ethiopia, the East African nation in the Horn of Africa, filed a formal restitution claim in 2007 asking that the UK return hundreds of ancient artifacts and manuscripts. These items were taken in 1868 during the capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.\n\nALSO READ: France Returns Stolen 19th Century Artifact To Senegal<\/a><\/strong>\n

According to the Association For the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET<\/a>), only 10 of the 468 items<\/a> known to have been seized at Maqdala have been returned. However, about 80 of those items are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/a> This includes a number of tabots believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on earth\u2014a symbol of the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n\n

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Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740. Museum no. M.27-2005. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London Responds<\/h2>\nThe Ethiopian government\u2019s claim to the items was denied by the museum. However, the Museum\u2019s Director, Tristam Hunt, suggested a compromise in an interview with UK\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. In Hunt's opinion, \u201cThe speediest way, if Ethiopia wants to have these items on display, is a long-term loan\u2026that would be the easiest way to manage it.\u201d\n\nALSO READ: Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?<\/a><\/strong>\n\nHunt said there were a number of reasons why a simple return was not possible. This includes the legal difficulties around deaccessioning and the \u201cphilosophical case for cosmopolitanism in museum collections.\u201d These items include a gold crown\u2014an important symbol of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Others are, a gold chalice and a royal wedding dress belonging to Queen Woyzaro Terunesh.\n\nQueen Terunesh was the second wife of the Ethiopian emperor, Tewodros. Also, she was the mother of Prince Alemayehu. The prince was brought to England where the government assumed responsibility for his care and education. They have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> (V&A) in London for the past 146 years. They are among 20 separate artifacts that will be on display for the exhibition which starts today, 5th April, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle which sought to secure the release of British hostages taken by Tewodros.\n\nRead More Here >><\/a><\/strong>","post_title":"Ethiopia Wants Its Looted Artifacts Returned And London Gives Interesting Response","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ethiopia-wants-colonial-era-looted-artifacts-returned-and-london-responds","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/thenerveafrica.com\/16619\/uk-museum-offers-return-ethiopias-stolen-treasures-loan\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The UK\u2019s British Museum, in particular, holds a number of colonial-era artifacts. Contacted by Artnet News, a spokesperson for the museum said that it is barred from deaccessioning objects in its collection under the British Museum Act, but that the trustees welcome Macron\u2019s advocacy for the circulation of objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Plaques
Plaques that form part of the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum. Photo by Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are complicated histories and a transparent focus on the provenance of objects is indispensable,\u201d the museum\u2019s trustees wrote in a statement. They pointed out that the British Museum has already committed to lending objects to Benin City\u2019s planned new Royal Museum<\/a> on a rotating basis, and that it is part of their mission to make the collection as widely accessible as possible to a global public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to use the extraordinary collections in museums to re-write the narrative of a one-sided history to a shared equitable and collaborative one. The British Museum is ready to play its part in that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topic is of particular interest to Germany, too. Most of the objects headed for a show planned at the new cultural center in Berlin, the Humboldt Forum<\/a>, date from the colonial era. \u201cGerman museums will certainly follow suit,\u201d said Felicity Bodenstein. But the debate there is different than in France because Germany cannot pass one law to apply to all of its museums, which are under the jurisdiction of various regional governments. \u201cDecisions get made very differently in these countries so the timing and form of restitution will not be the same,\u201d Bodenstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe looted art must be returned, this also applies to cultural assets from colonial contexts,\u201d a spokesperson for the German minister of culture Monika Gr\u00fctters told Monopol<\/a>. \u201cThis presupposes provenance research, which Germany has clearly intensified in recent years and is continuing to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savoy and Sarr\u2019s 190-page report is currently available to read online<\/a> and will be released in book form tomorrow from publishing house Philippe Rey-Seuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: On the Heels of a Dramatic Restitution Report, France Is Returning 26 Artifacts to Benin. Will Other Countries Follow Suit? | artnet News<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"france-is-returning-26-artifacts-to-benin-will-other-countries-follow-suit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/macron-26-benin-bronzes-restitution-1402570","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":54280,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_content":"\n\nWith colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade came the loss of Africa\u2019s artifacts and items of cultural heritage. These items now sit at museums and displays around the world. For years, debates on repatriating looted objects have been ongoing in Europe and the United States. There are also interesting movements like those lobbying British institutions for the return of Nigerian bronze artifacts looted from the Benin kingdom in 1897. However, the conversation started last year.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France recently made the return of African artifacts  \u201ca top priority\u201d for his country. He said that \u201cAfrican heritage can\u2019t just be in European private collections and museums.<\/em>\u201d Ethiopia, the East African nation in the Horn of Africa, filed a formal restitution claim in 2007 asking that the UK return hundreds of ancient artifacts and manuscripts. These items were taken in 1868 during the capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.\n\nALSO READ: France Returns Stolen 19th Century Artifact To Senegal<\/a><\/strong>\n

According to the Association For the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET<\/a>), only 10 of the 468 items<\/a> known to have been seized at Maqdala have been returned. However, about 80 of those items are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/a> This includes a number of tabots believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on earth\u2014a symbol of the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n\n

\"\"<\/a>
Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740. Museum no. M.27-2005. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London Responds<\/h2>\nThe Ethiopian government\u2019s claim to the items was denied by the museum. However, the Museum\u2019s Director, Tristam Hunt, suggested a compromise in an interview with UK\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. In Hunt's opinion, \u201cThe speediest way, if Ethiopia wants to have these items on display, is a long-term loan\u2026that would be the easiest way to manage it.\u201d\n\nALSO READ: Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?<\/a><\/strong>\n\nHunt said there were a number of reasons why a simple return was not possible. This includes the legal difficulties around deaccessioning and the \u201cphilosophical case for cosmopolitanism in museum collections.\u201d These items include a gold crown\u2014an important symbol of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Others are, a gold chalice and a royal wedding dress belonging to Queen Woyzaro Terunesh.\n\nQueen Terunesh was the second wife of the Ethiopian emperor, Tewodros. Also, she was the mother of Prince Alemayehu. The prince was brought to England where the government assumed responsibility for his care and education. They have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> (V&A) in London for the past 146 years. They are among 20 separate artifacts that will be on display for the exhibition which starts today, 5th April, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle which sought to secure the release of British hostages taken by Tewodros.\n\nRead More Here >><\/a><\/strong>","post_title":"Ethiopia Wants Its Looted Artifacts Returned And London Gives Interesting Response","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ethiopia-wants-colonial-era-looted-artifacts-returned-and-london-responds","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/thenerveafrica.com\/16619\/uk-museum-offers-return-ethiopias-stolen-treasures-loan\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Other European nations holding African collections acquired under comparable circumstances should also engage in the conversation, Macron urged on Friday. He invited African and European partners to meet in Paris in the first three months of 2019 to \u201cbuild together this new relationship and policy of exchange.\u201d The consultation will bring together African states and former European colonial powers such as Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK\u2019s British Museum, in particular, holds a number of colonial-era artifacts. Contacted by Artnet News, a spokesperson for the museum said that it is barred from deaccessioning objects in its collection under the British Museum Act, but that the trustees welcome Macron\u2019s advocacy for the circulation of objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Plaques
Plaques that form part of the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum. Photo by Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are complicated histories and a transparent focus on the provenance of objects is indispensable,\u201d the museum\u2019s trustees wrote in a statement. They pointed out that the British Museum has already committed to lending objects to Benin City\u2019s planned new Royal Museum<\/a> on a rotating basis, and that it is part of their mission to make the collection as widely accessible as possible to a global public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to use the extraordinary collections in museums to re-write the narrative of a one-sided history to a shared equitable and collaborative one. The British Museum is ready to play its part in that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topic is of particular interest to Germany, too. Most of the objects headed for a show planned at the new cultural center in Berlin, the Humboldt Forum<\/a>, date from the colonial era. \u201cGerman museums will certainly follow suit,\u201d said Felicity Bodenstein. But the debate there is different than in France because Germany cannot pass one law to apply to all of its museums, which are under the jurisdiction of various regional governments. \u201cDecisions get made very differently in these countries so the timing and form of restitution will not be the same,\u201d Bodenstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe looted art must be returned, this also applies to cultural assets from colonial contexts,\u201d a spokesperson for the German minister of culture Monika Gr\u00fctters told Monopol<\/a>. \u201cThis presupposes provenance research, which Germany has clearly intensified in recent years and is continuing to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savoy and Sarr\u2019s 190-page report is currently available to read online<\/a> and will be released in book form tomorrow from publishing house Philippe Rey-Seuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: On the Heels of a Dramatic Restitution Report, France Is Returning 26 Artifacts to Benin. Will Other Countries Follow Suit? | artnet News<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"france-is-returning-26-artifacts-to-benin-will-other-countries-follow-suit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/macron-26-benin-bronzes-restitution-1402570","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":54280,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_content":"\n\nWith colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade came the loss of Africa\u2019s artifacts and items of cultural heritage. These items now sit at museums and displays around the world. For years, debates on repatriating looted objects have been ongoing in Europe and the United States. There are also interesting movements like those lobbying British institutions for the return of Nigerian bronze artifacts looted from the Benin kingdom in 1897. However, the conversation started last year.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France recently made the return of African artifacts  \u201ca top priority\u201d for his country. He said that \u201cAfrican heritage can\u2019t just be in European private collections and museums.<\/em>\u201d Ethiopia, the East African nation in the Horn of Africa, filed a formal restitution claim in 2007 asking that the UK return hundreds of ancient artifacts and manuscripts. These items were taken in 1868 during the capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.\n\nALSO READ: France Returns Stolen 19th Century Artifact To Senegal<\/a><\/strong>\n

According to the Association For the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET<\/a>), only 10 of the 468 items<\/a> known to have been seized at Maqdala have been returned. However, about 80 of those items are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/a> This includes a number of tabots believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on earth\u2014a symbol of the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n\n

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Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740. Museum no. M.27-2005. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London Responds<\/h2>\nThe Ethiopian government\u2019s claim to the items was denied by the museum. However, the Museum\u2019s Director, Tristam Hunt, suggested a compromise in an interview with UK\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. In Hunt's opinion, \u201cThe speediest way, if Ethiopia wants to have these items on display, is a long-term loan\u2026that would be the easiest way to manage it.\u201d\n\nALSO READ: Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?<\/a><\/strong>\n\nHunt said there were a number of reasons why a simple return was not possible. This includes the legal difficulties around deaccessioning and the \u201cphilosophical case for cosmopolitanism in museum collections.\u201d These items include a gold crown\u2014an important symbol of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Others are, a gold chalice and a royal wedding dress belonging to Queen Woyzaro Terunesh.\n\nQueen Terunesh was the second wife of the Ethiopian emperor, Tewodros. Also, she was the mother of Prince Alemayehu. The prince was brought to England where the government assumed responsibility for his care and education. They have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> (V&A) in London for the past 146 years. They are among 20 separate artifacts that will be on display for the exhibition which starts today, 5th April, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle which sought to secure the release of British hostages taken by Tewodros.\n\nRead More Here >><\/a><\/strong>","post_title":"Ethiopia Wants Its Looted Artifacts Returned And London Gives Interesting Response","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ethiopia-wants-colonial-era-looted-artifacts-returned-and-london-responds","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/thenerveafrica.com\/16619\/uk-museum-offers-return-ethiopias-stolen-treasures-loan\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Looking Beyond France<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Other European nations holding African collections acquired under comparable circumstances should also engage in the conversation, Macron urged on Friday. He invited African and European partners to meet in Paris in the first three months of 2019 to \u201cbuild together this new relationship and policy of exchange.\u201d The consultation will bring together African states and former European colonial powers such as Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK\u2019s British Museum, in particular, holds a number of colonial-era artifacts. Contacted by Artnet News, a spokesperson for the museum said that it is barred from deaccessioning objects in its collection under the British Museum Act, but that the trustees welcome Macron\u2019s advocacy for the circulation of objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Plaques
Plaques that form part of the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum. Photo by Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are complicated histories and a transparent focus on the provenance of objects is indispensable,\u201d the museum\u2019s trustees wrote in a statement. They pointed out that the British Museum has already committed to lending objects to Benin City\u2019s planned new Royal Museum<\/a> on a rotating basis, and that it is part of their mission to make the collection as widely accessible as possible to a global public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to use the extraordinary collections in museums to re-write the narrative of a one-sided history to a shared equitable and collaborative one. The British Museum is ready to play its part in that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topic is of particular interest to Germany, too. Most of the objects headed for a show planned at the new cultural center in Berlin, the Humboldt Forum<\/a>, date from the colonial era. \u201cGerman museums will certainly follow suit,\u201d said Felicity Bodenstein. But the debate there is different than in France because Germany cannot pass one law to apply to all of its museums, which are under the jurisdiction of various regional governments. \u201cDecisions get made very differently in these countries so the timing and form of restitution will not be the same,\u201d Bodenstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe looted art must be returned, this also applies to cultural assets from colonial contexts,\u201d a spokesperson for the German minister of culture Monika Gr\u00fctters told Monopol<\/a>. \u201cThis presupposes provenance research, which Germany has clearly intensified in recent years and is continuing to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savoy and Sarr\u2019s 190-page report is currently available to read online<\/a> and will be released in book form tomorrow from publishing house Philippe Rey-Seuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: On the Heels of a Dramatic Restitution Report, France Is Returning 26 Artifacts to Benin. Will Other Countries Follow Suit? | artnet News<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"france-is-returning-26-artifacts-to-benin-will-other-countries-follow-suit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/macron-26-benin-bronzes-restitution-1402570","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":54280,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_content":"\n\nWith colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade came the loss of Africa\u2019s artifacts and items of cultural heritage. These items now sit at museums and displays around the world. For years, debates on repatriating looted objects have been ongoing in Europe and the United States. There are also interesting movements like those lobbying British institutions for the return of Nigerian bronze artifacts looted from the Benin kingdom in 1897. However, the conversation started last year.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France recently made the return of African artifacts  \u201ca top priority\u201d for his country. He said that \u201cAfrican heritage can\u2019t just be in European private collections and museums.<\/em>\u201d Ethiopia, the East African nation in the Horn of Africa, filed a formal restitution claim in 2007 asking that the UK return hundreds of ancient artifacts and manuscripts. These items were taken in 1868 during the capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.\n\nALSO READ: France Returns Stolen 19th Century Artifact To Senegal<\/a><\/strong>\n

According to the Association For the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET<\/a>), only 10 of the 468 items<\/a> known to have been seized at Maqdala have been returned. However, about 80 of those items are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/a> This includes a number of tabots believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on earth\u2014a symbol of the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n\n

\"\"<\/a>
Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740. Museum no. M.27-2005. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London Responds<\/h2>\nThe Ethiopian government\u2019s claim to the items was denied by the museum. However, the Museum\u2019s Director, Tristam Hunt, suggested a compromise in an interview with UK\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. In Hunt's opinion, \u201cThe speediest way, if Ethiopia wants to have these items on display, is a long-term loan\u2026that would be the easiest way to manage it.\u201d\n\nALSO READ: Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?<\/a><\/strong>\n\nHunt said there were a number of reasons why a simple return was not possible. This includes the legal difficulties around deaccessioning and the \u201cphilosophical case for cosmopolitanism in museum collections.\u201d These items include a gold crown\u2014an important symbol of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Others are, a gold chalice and a royal wedding dress belonging to Queen Woyzaro Terunesh.\n\nQueen Terunesh was the second wife of the Ethiopian emperor, Tewodros. Also, she was the mother of Prince Alemayehu. The prince was brought to England where the government assumed responsibility for his care and education. They have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> (V&A) in London for the past 146 years. They are among 20 separate artifacts that will be on display for the exhibition which starts today, 5th April, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle which sought to secure the release of British hostages taken by Tewodros.\n\nRead More Here >><\/a><\/strong>","post_title":"Ethiopia Wants Its Looted Artifacts Returned And London Gives Interesting Response","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ethiopia-wants-colonial-era-looted-artifacts-returned-and-london-responds","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/thenerveafrica.com\/16619\/uk-museum-offers-return-ethiopias-stolen-treasures-loan\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking Beyond France<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Other European nations holding African collections acquired under comparable circumstances should also engage in the conversation, Macron urged on Friday. He invited African and European partners to meet in Paris in the first three months of 2019 to \u201cbuild together this new relationship and policy of exchange.\u201d The consultation will bring together African states and former European colonial powers such as Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK\u2019s British Museum, in particular, holds a number of colonial-era artifacts. Contacted by Artnet News, a spokesperson for the museum said that it is barred from deaccessioning objects in its collection under the British Museum Act, but that the trustees welcome Macron\u2019s advocacy for the circulation of objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Plaques
Plaques that form part of the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum. Photo by Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are complicated histories and a transparent focus on the provenance of objects is indispensable,\u201d the museum\u2019s trustees wrote in a statement. They pointed out that the British Museum has already committed to lending objects to Benin City\u2019s planned new Royal Museum<\/a> on a rotating basis, and that it is part of their mission to make the collection as widely accessible as possible to a global public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to use the extraordinary collections in museums to re-write the narrative of a one-sided history to a shared equitable and collaborative one. The British Museum is ready to play its part in that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topic is of particular interest to Germany, too. Most of the objects headed for a show planned at the new cultural center in Berlin, the Humboldt Forum<\/a>, date from the colonial era. \u201cGerman museums will certainly follow suit,\u201d said Felicity Bodenstein. But the debate there is different than in France because Germany cannot pass one law to apply to all of its museums, which are under the jurisdiction of various regional governments. \u201cDecisions get made very differently in these countries so the timing and form of restitution will not be the same,\u201d Bodenstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe looted art must be returned, this also applies to cultural assets from colonial contexts,\u201d a spokesperson for the German minister of culture Monika Gr\u00fctters told Monopol<\/a>. \u201cThis presupposes provenance research, which Germany has clearly intensified in recent years and is continuing to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savoy and Sarr\u2019s 190-page report is currently available to read online<\/a> and will be released in book form tomorrow from publishing house Philippe Rey-Seuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: On the Heels of a Dramatic Restitution Report, France Is Returning 26 Artifacts to Benin. Will Other Countries Follow Suit? | artnet News<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"france-is-returning-26-artifacts-to-benin-will-other-countries-follow-suit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/macron-26-benin-bronzes-restitution-1402570","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":54280,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_content":"\n\nWith colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade came the loss of Africa\u2019s artifacts and items of cultural heritage. These items now sit at museums and displays around the world. For years, debates on repatriating looted objects have been ongoing in Europe and the United States. There are also interesting movements like those lobbying British institutions for the return of Nigerian bronze artifacts looted from the Benin kingdom in 1897. However, the conversation started last year.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France recently made the return of African artifacts  \u201ca top priority\u201d for his country. He said that \u201cAfrican heritage can\u2019t just be in European private collections and museums.<\/em>\u201d Ethiopia, the East African nation in the Horn of Africa, filed a formal restitution claim in 2007 asking that the UK return hundreds of ancient artifacts and manuscripts. These items were taken in 1868 during the capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.\n\nALSO READ: France Returns Stolen 19th Century Artifact To Senegal<\/a><\/strong>\n

According to the Association For the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET<\/a>), only 10 of the 468 items<\/a> known to have been seized at Maqdala have been returned. However, about 80 of those items are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/a> This includes a number of tabots believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on earth\u2014a symbol of the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n\n

\"\"<\/a>
Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740. Museum no. M.27-2005. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London Responds<\/h2>\nThe Ethiopian government\u2019s claim to the items was denied by the museum. However, the Museum\u2019s Director, Tristam Hunt, suggested a compromise in an interview with UK\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. In Hunt's opinion, \u201cThe speediest way, if Ethiopia wants to have these items on display, is a long-term loan\u2026that would be the easiest way to manage it.\u201d\n\nALSO READ: Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?<\/a><\/strong>\n\nHunt said there were a number of reasons why a simple return was not possible. This includes the legal difficulties around deaccessioning and the \u201cphilosophical case for cosmopolitanism in museum collections.\u201d These items include a gold crown\u2014an important symbol of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Others are, a gold chalice and a royal wedding dress belonging to Queen Woyzaro Terunesh.\n\nQueen Terunesh was the second wife of the Ethiopian emperor, Tewodros. Also, she was the mother of Prince Alemayehu. The prince was brought to England where the government assumed responsibility for his care and education. They have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> (V&A) in London for the past 146 years. They are among 20 separate artifacts that will be on display for the exhibition which starts today, 5th April, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle which sought to secure the release of British hostages taken by Tewodros.\n\nRead More Here >><\/a><\/strong>","post_title":"Ethiopia Wants Its Looted Artifacts Returned And London Gives Interesting Response","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ethiopia-wants-colonial-era-looted-artifacts-returned-and-london-responds","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/thenerveafrica.com\/16619\/uk-museum-offers-return-ethiopias-stolen-treasures-loan\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The French president called on his ministries of culture and foreign affairs to take steps to ensure \u201cAfrican youth has access in Africa and not just in Europe to their own heritage and the common heritage of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking Beyond France<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Other European nations holding African collections acquired under comparable circumstances should also engage in the conversation, Macron urged on Friday. He invited African and European partners to meet in Paris in the first three months of 2019 to \u201cbuild together this new relationship and policy of exchange.\u201d The consultation will bring together African states and former European colonial powers such as Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK\u2019s British Museum, in particular, holds a number of colonial-era artifacts. Contacted by Artnet News, a spokesperson for the museum said that it is barred from deaccessioning objects in its collection under the British Museum Act, but that the trustees welcome Macron\u2019s advocacy for the circulation of objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Plaques
Plaques that form part of the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum. Photo by Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are complicated histories and a transparent focus on the provenance of objects is indispensable,\u201d the museum\u2019s trustees wrote in a statement. They pointed out that the British Museum has already committed to lending objects to Benin City\u2019s planned new Royal Museum<\/a> on a rotating basis, and that it is part of their mission to make the collection as widely accessible as possible to a global public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to use the extraordinary collections in museums to re-write the narrative of a one-sided history to a shared equitable and collaborative one. The British Museum is ready to play its part in that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topic is of particular interest to Germany, too. Most of the objects headed for a show planned at the new cultural center in Berlin, the Humboldt Forum<\/a>, date from the colonial era. \u201cGerman museums will certainly follow suit,\u201d said Felicity Bodenstein. But the debate there is different than in France because Germany cannot pass one law to apply to all of its museums, which are under the jurisdiction of various regional governments. \u201cDecisions get made very differently in these countries so the timing and form of restitution will not be the same,\u201d Bodenstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe looted art must be returned, this also applies to cultural assets from colonial contexts,\u201d a spokesperson for the German minister of culture Monika Gr\u00fctters told Monopol<\/a>. \u201cThis presupposes provenance research, which Germany has clearly intensified in recent years and is continuing to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savoy and Sarr\u2019s 190-page report is currently available to read online<\/a> and will be released in book form tomorrow from publishing house Philippe Rey-Seuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: On the Heels of a Dramatic Restitution Report, France Is Returning 26 Artifacts to Benin. Will Other Countries Follow Suit? | artnet News<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"france-is-returning-26-artifacts-to-benin-will-other-countries-follow-suit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/macron-26-benin-bronzes-restitution-1402570","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":54280,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_content":"\n\nWith colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade came the loss of Africa\u2019s artifacts and items of cultural heritage. These items now sit at museums and displays around the world. For years, debates on repatriating looted objects have been ongoing in Europe and the United States. There are also interesting movements like those lobbying British institutions for the return of Nigerian bronze artifacts looted from the Benin kingdom in 1897. However, the conversation started last year.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France recently made the return of African artifacts  \u201ca top priority\u201d for his country. He said that \u201cAfrican heritage can\u2019t just be in European private collections and museums.<\/em>\u201d Ethiopia, the East African nation in the Horn of Africa, filed a formal restitution claim in 2007 asking that the UK return hundreds of ancient artifacts and manuscripts. These items were taken in 1868 during the capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.\n\nALSO READ: France Returns Stolen 19th Century Artifact To Senegal<\/a><\/strong>\n

According to the Association For the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET<\/a>), only 10 of the 468 items<\/a> known to have been seized at Maqdala have been returned. However, about 80 of those items are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/a> This includes a number of tabots believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on earth\u2014a symbol of the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n\n

\"\"<\/a>
Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740. Museum no. M.27-2005. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London Responds<\/h2>\nThe Ethiopian government\u2019s claim to the items was denied by the museum. However, the Museum\u2019s Director, Tristam Hunt, suggested a compromise in an interview with UK\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. In Hunt's opinion, \u201cThe speediest way, if Ethiopia wants to have these items on display, is a long-term loan\u2026that would be the easiest way to manage it.\u201d\n\nALSO READ: Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?<\/a><\/strong>\n\nHunt said there were a number of reasons why a simple return was not possible. This includes the legal difficulties around deaccessioning and the \u201cphilosophical case for cosmopolitanism in museum collections.\u201d These items include a gold crown\u2014an important symbol of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Others are, a gold chalice and a royal wedding dress belonging to Queen Woyzaro Terunesh.\n\nQueen Terunesh was the second wife of the Ethiopian emperor, Tewodros. Also, she was the mother of Prince Alemayehu. The prince was brought to England where the government assumed responsibility for his care and education. They have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> (V&A) in London for the past 146 years. They are among 20 separate artifacts that will be on display for the exhibition which starts today, 5th April, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle which sought to secure the release of British hostages taken by Tewodros.\n\nRead More Here >><\/a><\/strong>","post_title":"Ethiopia Wants Its Looted Artifacts Returned And London Gives Interesting Response","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ethiopia-wants-colonial-era-looted-artifacts-returned-and-london-responds","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/thenerveafrica.com\/16619\/uk-museum-offers-return-ethiopias-stolen-treasures-loan\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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in fact, the 26 artifacts returning to Benin have been in the works for nearly a year. \u201cIt is a little bit unfortunate that it appears as the sudden decision of Emmanuel Macron,\u201d Felicity Bodenstein, a historian of ethnographic collections at Berlin\u2019s Technical University, told Artnet News. \u201cIt is not. Curators at the Quai Branly have been engaged in this dialogue for quite some time now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The French president called on his ministries of culture and foreign affairs to take steps to ensure \u201cAfrican youth has access in Africa and not just in Europe to their own heritage and the common heritage of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking Beyond France<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Other European nations holding African collections acquired under comparable circumstances should also engage in the conversation, Macron urged on Friday. He invited African and European partners to meet in Paris in the first three months of 2019 to \u201cbuild together this new relationship and policy of exchange.\u201d The consultation will bring together African states and former European colonial powers such as Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK\u2019s British Museum, in particular, holds a number of colonial-era artifacts. Contacted by Artnet News, a spokesperson for the museum said that it is barred from deaccessioning objects in its collection under the British Museum Act, but that the trustees welcome Macron\u2019s advocacy for the circulation of objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Plaques
Plaques that form part of the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum. Photo by Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are complicated histories and a transparent focus on the provenance of objects is indispensable,\u201d the museum\u2019s trustees wrote in a statement. They pointed out that the British Museum has already committed to lending objects to Benin City\u2019s planned new Royal Museum<\/a> on a rotating basis, and that it is part of their mission to make the collection as widely accessible as possible to a global public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to use the extraordinary collections in museums to re-write the narrative of a one-sided history to a shared equitable and collaborative one. The British Museum is ready to play its part in that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topic is of particular interest to Germany, too. Most of the objects headed for a show planned at the new cultural center in Berlin, the Humboldt Forum<\/a>, date from the colonial era. \u201cGerman museums will certainly follow suit,\u201d said Felicity Bodenstein. But the debate there is different than in France because Germany cannot pass one law to apply to all of its museums, which are under the jurisdiction of various regional governments. \u201cDecisions get made very differently in these countries so the timing and form of restitution will not be the same,\u201d Bodenstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe looted art must be returned, this also applies to cultural assets from colonial contexts,\u201d a spokesperson for the German minister of culture Monika Gr\u00fctters told Monopol<\/a>. \u201cThis presupposes provenance research, which Germany has clearly intensified in recent years and is continuing to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savoy and Sarr\u2019s 190-page report is currently available to read online<\/a> and will be released in book form tomorrow from publishing house Philippe Rey-Seuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: On the Heels of a Dramatic Restitution Report, France Is Returning 26 Artifacts to Benin. Will Other Countries Follow Suit? | artnet News<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"france-is-returning-26-artifacts-to-benin-will-other-countries-follow-suit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/macron-26-benin-bronzes-restitution-1402570","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":54280,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_content":"\n\nWith colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade came the loss of Africa\u2019s artifacts and items of cultural heritage. These items now sit at museums and displays around the world. For years, debates on repatriating looted objects have been ongoing in Europe and the United States. There are also interesting movements like those lobbying British institutions for the return of Nigerian bronze artifacts looted from the Benin kingdom in 1897. However, the conversation started last year.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France recently made the return of African artifacts  \u201ca top priority\u201d for his country. He said that \u201cAfrican heritage can\u2019t just be in European private collections and museums.<\/em>\u201d Ethiopia, the East African nation in the Horn of Africa, filed a formal restitution claim in 2007 asking that the UK return hundreds of ancient artifacts and manuscripts. These items were taken in 1868 during the capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.\n\nALSO READ: France Returns Stolen 19th Century Artifact To Senegal<\/a><\/strong>\n

According to the Association For the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET<\/a>), only 10 of the 468 items<\/a> known to have been seized at Maqdala have been returned. However, about 80 of those items are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/a> This includes a number of tabots believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on earth\u2014a symbol of the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n\n

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Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740. Museum no. M.27-2005. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London Responds<\/h2>\nThe Ethiopian government\u2019s claim to the items was denied by the museum. However, the Museum\u2019s Director, Tristam Hunt, suggested a compromise in an interview with UK\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. In Hunt's opinion, \u201cThe speediest way, if Ethiopia wants to have these items on display, is a long-term loan\u2026that would be the easiest way to manage it.\u201d\n\nALSO READ: Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?<\/a><\/strong>\n\nHunt said there were a number of reasons why a simple return was not possible. This includes the legal difficulties around deaccessioning and the \u201cphilosophical case for cosmopolitanism in museum collections.\u201d These items include a gold crown\u2014an important symbol of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Others are, a gold chalice and a royal wedding dress belonging to Queen Woyzaro Terunesh.\n\nQueen Terunesh was the second wife of the Ethiopian emperor, Tewodros. Also, she was the mother of Prince Alemayehu. The prince was brought to England where the government assumed responsibility for his care and education. They have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> (V&A) in London for the past 146 years. They are among 20 separate artifacts that will be on display for the exhibition which starts today, 5th April, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle which sought to secure the release of British hostages taken by Tewodros.\n\nRead More Here >><\/a><\/strong>","post_title":"Ethiopia Wants Its Looted Artifacts Returned And London Gives Interesting Response","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ethiopia-wants-colonial-era-looted-artifacts-returned-and-london-responds","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/thenerveafrica.com\/16619\/uk-museum-offers-return-ethiopias-stolen-treasures-loan\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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France is beginning with objects from Benin because, to date, it is the only country from which France has received a formal request. But the objects are among some 90,000 works from sub-Saharan Africa in French public collections, according to the report, including nearly 70,000 in the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in fact, the 26 artifacts returning to Benin have been in the works for nearly a year. \u201cIt is a little bit unfortunate that it appears as the sudden decision of Emmanuel Macron,\u201d Felicity Bodenstein, a historian of ethnographic collections at Berlin\u2019s Technical University, told Artnet News. \u201cIt is not. Curators at the Quai Branly have been engaged in this dialogue for quite some time now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The French president called on his ministries of culture and foreign affairs to take steps to ensure \u201cAfrican youth has access in Africa and not just in Europe to their own heritage and the common heritage of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking Beyond France<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Other European nations holding African collections acquired under comparable circumstances should also engage in the conversation, Macron urged on Friday. He invited African and European partners to meet in Paris in the first three months of 2019 to \u201cbuild together this new relationship and policy of exchange.\u201d The consultation will bring together African states and former European colonial powers such as Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK\u2019s British Museum, in particular, holds a number of colonial-era artifacts. Contacted by Artnet News, a spokesperson for the museum said that it is barred from deaccessioning objects in its collection under the British Museum Act, but that the trustees welcome Macron\u2019s advocacy for the circulation of objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Plaques that form part of the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum. Photo by Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are complicated histories and a transparent focus on the provenance of objects is indispensable,\u201d the museum\u2019s trustees wrote in a statement. They pointed out that the British Museum has already committed to lending objects to Benin City\u2019s planned new Royal Museum<\/a> on a rotating basis, and that it is part of their mission to make the collection as widely accessible as possible to a global public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to use the extraordinary collections in museums to re-write the narrative of a one-sided history to a shared equitable and collaborative one. The British Museum is ready to play its part in that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topic is of particular interest to Germany, too. Most of the objects headed for a show planned at the new cultural center in Berlin, the Humboldt Forum<\/a>, date from the colonial era. \u201cGerman museums will certainly follow suit,\u201d said Felicity Bodenstein. But the debate there is different than in France because Germany cannot pass one law to apply to all of its museums, which are under the jurisdiction of various regional governments. \u201cDecisions get made very differently in these countries so the timing and form of restitution will not be the same,\u201d Bodenstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe looted art must be returned, this also applies to cultural assets from colonial contexts,\u201d a spokesperson for the German minister of culture Monika Gr\u00fctters told Monopol<\/a>. \u201cThis presupposes provenance research, which Germany has clearly intensified in recent years and is continuing to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savoy and Sarr\u2019s 190-page report is currently available to read online<\/a> and will be released in book form tomorrow from publishing house Philippe Rey-Seuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: On the Heels of a Dramatic Restitution Report, France Is Returning 26 Artifacts to Benin. Will Other Countries Follow Suit? | artnet News<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"france-is-returning-26-artifacts-to-benin-will-other-countries-follow-suit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/macron-26-benin-bronzes-restitution-1402570","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":54280,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_content":"\n\nWith colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade came the loss of Africa\u2019s artifacts and items of cultural heritage. These items now sit at museums and displays around the world. For years, debates on repatriating looted objects have been ongoing in Europe and the United States. There are also interesting movements like those lobbying British institutions for the return of Nigerian bronze artifacts looted from the Benin kingdom in 1897. However, the conversation started last year.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France recently made the return of African artifacts  \u201ca top priority\u201d for his country. He said that \u201cAfrican heritage can\u2019t just be in European private collections and museums.<\/em>\u201d Ethiopia, the East African nation in the Horn of Africa, filed a formal restitution claim in 2007 asking that the UK return hundreds of ancient artifacts and manuscripts. These items were taken in 1868 during the capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.\n\nALSO READ: France Returns Stolen 19th Century Artifact To Senegal<\/a><\/strong>\n

According to the Association For the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET<\/a>), only 10 of the 468 items<\/a> known to have been seized at Maqdala have been returned. However, about 80 of those items are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/a> This includes a number of tabots believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on earth\u2014a symbol of the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n\n

\"\"<\/a>
Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740. Museum no. M.27-2005. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London Responds<\/h2>\nThe Ethiopian government\u2019s claim to the items was denied by the museum. However, the Museum\u2019s Director, Tristam Hunt, suggested a compromise in an interview with UK\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. In Hunt's opinion, \u201cThe speediest way, if Ethiopia wants to have these items on display, is a long-term loan\u2026that would be the easiest way to manage it.\u201d\n\nALSO READ: Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?<\/a><\/strong>\n\nHunt said there were a number of reasons why a simple return was not possible. This includes the legal difficulties around deaccessioning and the \u201cphilosophical case for cosmopolitanism in museum collections.\u201d These items include a gold crown\u2014an important symbol of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Others are, a gold chalice and a royal wedding dress belonging to Queen Woyzaro Terunesh.\n\nQueen Terunesh was the second wife of the Ethiopian emperor, Tewodros. Also, she was the mother of Prince Alemayehu. The prince was brought to England where the government assumed responsibility for his care and education. They have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> (V&A) in London for the past 146 years. They are among 20 separate artifacts that will be on display for the exhibition which starts today, 5th April, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle which sought to secure the release of British hostages taken by Tewodros.\n\nRead More Here >><\/a><\/strong>","post_title":"Ethiopia Wants Its Looted Artifacts Returned And London Gives Interesting Response","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ethiopia-wants-colonial-era-looted-artifacts-returned-and-london-responds","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/thenerveafrica.com\/16619\/uk-museum-offers-return-ethiopias-stolen-treasures-loan\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Benin will now be offered access to the 26 objects on a temporary basis while officials study how to implement the restitution into French law, a spokesperson for the \u00c9lys\u00e9e told Artnet News, adding that it\u2019s up to the French ministry of culture to decide how to proceed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

France is beginning with objects from Benin because, to date, it is the only country from which France has received a formal request. But the objects are among some 90,000 works from sub-Saharan Africa in French public collections, according to the report, including nearly 70,000 in the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in fact, the 26 artifacts returning to Benin have been in the works for nearly a year. \u201cIt is a little bit unfortunate that it appears as the sudden decision of Emmanuel Macron,\u201d Felicity Bodenstein, a historian of ethnographic collections at Berlin\u2019s Technical University, told Artnet News. \u201cIt is not. Curators at the Quai Branly have been engaged in this dialogue for quite some time now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The French president called on his ministries of culture and foreign affairs to take steps to ensure \u201cAfrican youth has access in Africa and not just in Europe to their own heritage and the common heritage of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking Beyond France<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Other European nations holding African collections acquired under comparable circumstances should also engage in the conversation, Macron urged on Friday. He invited African and European partners to meet in Paris in the first three months of 2019 to \u201cbuild together this new relationship and policy of exchange.\u201d The consultation will bring together African states and former European colonial powers such as Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK\u2019s British Museum, in particular, holds a number of colonial-era artifacts. Contacted by Artnet News, a spokesperson for the museum said that it is barred from deaccessioning objects in its collection under the British Museum Act, but that the trustees welcome Macron\u2019s advocacy for the circulation of objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Plaques
Plaques that form part of the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum. Photo by Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are complicated histories and a transparent focus on the provenance of objects is indispensable,\u201d the museum\u2019s trustees wrote in a statement. They pointed out that the British Museum has already committed to lending objects to Benin City\u2019s planned new Royal Museum<\/a> on a rotating basis, and that it is part of their mission to make the collection as widely accessible as possible to a global public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to use the extraordinary collections in museums to re-write the narrative of a one-sided history to a shared equitable and collaborative one. The British Museum is ready to play its part in that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topic is of particular interest to Germany, too. Most of the objects headed for a show planned at the new cultural center in Berlin, the Humboldt Forum<\/a>, date from the colonial era. \u201cGerman museums will certainly follow suit,\u201d said Felicity Bodenstein. But the debate there is different than in France because Germany cannot pass one law to apply to all of its museums, which are under the jurisdiction of various regional governments. \u201cDecisions get made very differently in these countries so the timing and form of restitution will not be the same,\u201d Bodenstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe looted art must be returned, this also applies to cultural assets from colonial contexts,\u201d a spokesperson for the German minister of culture Monika Gr\u00fctters told Monopol<\/a>. \u201cThis presupposes provenance research, which Germany has clearly intensified in recent years and is continuing to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savoy and Sarr\u2019s 190-page report is currently available to read online<\/a> and will be released in book form tomorrow from publishing house Philippe Rey-Seuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: On the Heels of a Dramatic Restitution Report, France Is Returning 26 Artifacts to Benin. Will Other Countries Follow Suit? | artnet News<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"france-is-returning-26-artifacts-to-benin-will-other-countries-follow-suit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/macron-26-benin-bronzes-restitution-1402570","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":54280,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_content":"\n\nWith colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade came the loss of Africa\u2019s artifacts and items of cultural heritage. These items now sit at museums and displays around the world. For years, debates on repatriating looted objects have been ongoing in Europe and the United States. There are also interesting movements like those lobbying British institutions for the return of Nigerian bronze artifacts looted from the Benin kingdom in 1897. However, the conversation started last year.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France recently made the return of African artifacts  \u201ca top priority\u201d for his country. He said that \u201cAfrican heritage can\u2019t just be in European private collections and museums.<\/em>\u201d Ethiopia, the East African nation in the Horn of Africa, filed a formal restitution claim in 2007 asking that the UK return hundreds of ancient artifacts and manuscripts. These items were taken in 1868 during the capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.\n\nALSO READ: France Returns Stolen 19th Century Artifact To Senegal<\/a><\/strong>\n

According to the Association For the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET<\/a>), only 10 of the 468 items<\/a> known to have been seized at Maqdala have been returned. However, about 80 of those items are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/a> This includes a number of tabots believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on earth\u2014a symbol of the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n\n

\"\"<\/a>
Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740. Museum no. M.27-2005. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London Responds<\/h2>\nThe Ethiopian government\u2019s claim to the items was denied by the museum. However, the Museum\u2019s Director, Tristam Hunt, suggested a compromise in an interview with UK\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. In Hunt's opinion, \u201cThe speediest way, if Ethiopia wants to have these items on display, is a long-term loan\u2026that would be the easiest way to manage it.\u201d\n\nALSO READ: Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?<\/a><\/strong>\n\nHunt said there were a number of reasons why a simple return was not possible. This includes the legal difficulties around deaccessioning and the \u201cphilosophical case for cosmopolitanism in museum collections.\u201d These items include a gold crown\u2014an important symbol of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Others are, a gold chalice and a royal wedding dress belonging to Queen Woyzaro Terunesh.\n\nQueen Terunesh was the second wife of the Ethiopian emperor, Tewodros. Also, she was the mother of Prince Alemayehu. The prince was brought to England where the government assumed responsibility for his care and education. They have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> (V&A) in London for the past 146 years. They are among 20 separate artifacts that will be on display for the exhibition which starts today, 5th April, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle which sought to secure the release of British hostages taken by Tewodros.\n\nRead More Here >><\/a><\/strong>","post_title":"Ethiopia Wants Its Looted Artifacts Returned And London Gives Interesting Response","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ethiopia-wants-colonial-era-looted-artifacts-returned-and-london-responds","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/thenerveafrica.com\/16619\/uk-museum-offers-return-ethiopias-stolen-treasures-loan\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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But Macron\u2019s recent statement at the \u00c9lys\u00e9e implies that there could be a change to French law on the inalienability of objects in the national collection. \u201cOperational and, where appropriate, legislative, measures will be taken to allow these works to return to Benin, accompanied by the know-how of the museum which has preserved them until now,\u201d Macron said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benin will now be offered access to the 26 objects on a temporary basis while officials study how to implement the restitution into French law, a spokesperson for the \u00c9lys\u00e9e told Artnet News, adding that it\u2019s up to the French ministry of culture to decide how to proceed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

France is beginning with objects from Benin because, to date, it is the only country from which France has received a formal request. But the objects are among some 90,000 works from sub-Saharan Africa in French public collections, according to the report, including nearly 70,000 in the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in fact, the 26 artifacts returning to Benin have been in the works for nearly a year. \u201cIt is a little bit unfortunate that it appears as the sudden decision of Emmanuel Macron,\u201d Felicity Bodenstein, a historian of ethnographic collections at Berlin\u2019s Technical University, told Artnet News. \u201cIt is not. Curators at the Quai Branly have been engaged in this dialogue for quite some time now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The French president called on his ministries of culture and foreign affairs to take steps to ensure \u201cAfrican youth has access in Africa and not just in Europe to their own heritage and the common heritage of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking Beyond France<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Other European nations holding African collections acquired under comparable circumstances should also engage in the conversation, Macron urged on Friday. He invited African and European partners to meet in Paris in the first three months of 2019 to \u201cbuild together this new relationship and policy of exchange.\u201d The consultation will bring together African states and former European colonial powers such as Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK\u2019s British Museum, in particular, holds a number of colonial-era artifacts. Contacted by Artnet News, a spokesperson for the museum said that it is barred from deaccessioning objects in its collection under the British Museum Act, but that the trustees welcome Macron\u2019s advocacy for the circulation of objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Plaques
Plaques that form part of the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum. Photo by Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are complicated histories and a transparent focus on the provenance of objects is indispensable,\u201d the museum\u2019s trustees wrote in a statement. They pointed out that the British Museum has already committed to lending objects to Benin City\u2019s planned new Royal Museum<\/a> on a rotating basis, and that it is part of their mission to make the collection as widely accessible as possible to a global public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to use the extraordinary collections in museums to re-write the narrative of a one-sided history to a shared equitable and collaborative one. The British Museum is ready to play its part in that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topic is of particular interest to Germany, too. Most of the objects headed for a show planned at the new cultural center in Berlin, the Humboldt Forum<\/a>, date from the colonial era. \u201cGerman museums will certainly follow suit,\u201d said Felicity Bodenstein. But the debate there is different than in France because Germany cannot pass one law to apply to all of its museums, which are under the jurisdiction of various regional governments. \u201cDecisions get made very differently in these countries so the timing and form of restitution will not be the same,\u201d Bodenstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe looted art must be returned, this also applies to cultural assets from colonial contexts,\u201d a spokesperson for the German minister of culture Monika Gr\u00fctters told Monopol<\/a>. \u201cThis presupposes provenance research, which Germany has clearly intensified in recent years and is continuing to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savoy and Sarr\u2019s 190-page report is currently available to read online<\/a> and will be released in book form tomorrow from publishing house Philippe Rey-Seuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: On the Heels of a Dramatic Restitution Report, France Is Returning 26 Artifacts to Benin. Will Other Countries Follow Suit? | artnet News<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"france-is-returning-26-artifacts-to-benin-will-other-countries-follow-suit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/macron-26-benin-bronzes-restitution-1402570","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":54280,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_content":"\n\nWith colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade came the loss of Africa\u2019s artifacts and items of cultural heritage. These items now sit at museums and displays around the world. For years, debates on repatriating looted objects have been ongoing in Europe and the United States. There are also interesting movements like those lobbying British institutions for the return of Nigerian bronze artifacts looted from the Benin kingdom in 1897. However, the conversation started last year.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France recently made the return of African artifacts  \u201ca top priority\u201d for his country. He said that \u201cAfrican heritage can\u2019t just be in European private collections and museums.<\/em>\u201d Ethiopia, the East African nation in the Horn of Africa, filed a formal restitution claim in 2007 asking that the UK return hundreds of ancient artifacts and manuscripts. These items were taken in 1868 during the capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.\n\nALSO READ: France Returns Stolen 19th Century Artifact To Senegal<\/a><\/strong>\n

According to the Association For the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET<\/a>), only 10 of the 468 items<\/a> known to have been seized at Maqdala have been returned. However, about 80 of those items are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/a> This includes a number of tabots believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on earth\u2014a symbol of the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n\n

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Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740. Museum no. M.27-2005. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London Responds<\/h2>\nThe Ethiopian government\u2019s claim to the items was denied by the museum. However, the Museum\u2019s Director, Tristam Hunt, suggested a compromise in an interview with UK\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. In Hunt's opinion, \u201cThe speediest way, if Ethiopia wants to have these items on display, is a long-term loan\u2026that would be the easiest way to manage it.\u201d\n\nALSO READ: Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?<\/a><\/strong>\n\nHunt said there were a number of reasons why a simple return was not possible. This includes the legal difficulties around deaccessioning and the \u201cphilosophical case for cosmopolitanism in museum collections.\u201d These items include a gold crown\u2014an important symbol of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Others are, a gold chalice and a royal wedding dress belonging to Queen Woyzaro Terunesh.\n\nQueen Terunesh was the second wife of the Ethiopian emperor, Tewodros. Also, she was the mother of Prince Alemayehu. The prince was brought to England where the government assumed responsibility for his care and education. They have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> (V&A) in London for the past 146 years. They are among 20 separate artifacts that will be on display for the exhibition which starts today, 5th April, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle which sought to secure the release of British hostages taken by Tewodros.\n\nRead More Here >><\/a><\/strong>","post_title":"Ethiopia Wants Its Looted Artifacts Returned And London Gives Interesting Response","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ethiopia-wants-colonial-era-looted-artifacts-returned-and-london-responds","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/thenerveafrica.com\/16619\/uk-museum-offers-return-ethiopias-stolen-treasures-loan\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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France\u2019s former minister of foreign affairs, Jean-Marc Ayrault, previously rejected an official request for restitution in 2016<\/a> on the grounds of the \u201cinalienability\u201d of its national collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Macron\u2019s recent statement at the \u00c9lys\u00e9e implies that there could be a change to French law on the inalienability of objects in the national collection. \u201cOperational and, where appropriate, legislative, measures will be taken to allow these works to return to Benin, accompanied by the know-how of the museum which has preserved them until now,\u201d Macron said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benin will now be offered access to the 26 objects on a temporary basis while officials study how to implement the restitution into French law, a spokesperson for the \u00c9lys\u00e9e told Artnet News, adding that it\u2019s up to the French ministry of culture to decide how to proceed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

France is beginning with objects from Benin because, to date, it is the only country from which France has received a formal request. But the objects are among some 90,000 works from sub-Saharan Africa in French public collections, according to the report, including nearly 70,000 in the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in fact, the 26 artifacts returning to Benin have been in the works for nearly a year. \u201cIt is a little bit unfortunate that it appears as the sudden decision of Emmanuel Macron,\u201d Felicity Bodenstein, a historian of ethnographic collections at Berlin\u2019s Technical University, told Artnet News. \u201cIt is not. Curators at the Quai Branly have been engaged in this dialogue for quite some time now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The French president called on his ministries of culture and foreign affairs to take steps to ensure \u201cAfrican youth has access in Africa and not just in Europe to their own heritage and the common heritage of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking Beyond France<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Other European nations holding African collections acquired under comparable circumstances should also engage in the conversation, Macron urged on Friday. He invited African and European partners to meet in Paris in the first three months of 2019 to \u201cbuild together this new relationship and policy of exchange.\u201d The consultation will bring together African states and former European colonial powers such as Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK\u2019s British Museum, in particular, holds a number of colonial-era artifacts. Contacted by Artnet News, a spokesperson for the museum said that it is barred from deaccessioning objects in its collection under the British Museum Act, but that the trustees welcome Macron\u2019s advocacy for the circulation of objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Plaques
Plaques that form part of the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum. Photo by Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are complicated histories and a transparent focus on the provenance of objects is indispensable,\u201d the museum\u2019s trustees wrote in a statement. They pointed out that the British Museum has already committed to lending objects to Benin City\u2019s planned new Royal Museum<\/a> on a rotating basis, and that it is part of their mission to make the collection as widely accessible as possible to a global public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to use the extraordinary collections in museums to re-write the narrative of a one-sided history to a shared equitable and collaborative one. The British Museum is ready to play its part in that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topic is of particular interest to Germany, too. Most of the objects headed for a show planned at the new cultural center in Berlin, the Humboldt Forum<\/a>, date from the colonial era. \u201cGerman museums will certainly follow suit,\u201d said Felicity Bodenstein. But the debate there is different than in France because Germany cannot pass one law to apply to all of its museums, which are under the jurisdiction of various regional governments. \u201cDecisions get made very differently in these countries so the timing and form of restitution will not be the same,\u201d Bodenstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe looted art must be returned, this also applies to cultural assets from colonial contexts,\u201d a spokesperson for the German minister of culture Monika Gr\u00fctters told Monopol<\/a>. \u201cThis presupposes provenance research, which Germany has clearly intensified in recent years and is continuing to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savoy and Sarr\u2019s 190-page report is currently available to read online<\/a> and will be released in book form tomorrow from publishing house Philippe Rey-Seuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: On the Heels of a Dramatic Restitution Report, France Is Returning 26 Artifacts to Benin. Will Other Countries Follow Suit? | artnet News<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"france-is-returning-26-artifacts-to-benin-will-other-countries-follow-suit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/macron-26-benin-bronzes-restitution-1402570","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":54280,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_content":"\n\nWith colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade came the loss of Africa\u2019s artifacts and items of cultural heritage. These items now sit at museums and displays around the world. For years, debates on repatriating looted objects have been ongoing in Europe and the United States. There are also interesting movements like those lobbying British institutions for the return of Nigerian bronze artifacts looted from the Benin kingdom in 1897. However, the conversation started last year.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France recently made the return of African artifacts  \u201ca top priority\u201d for his country. He said that \u201cAfrican heritage can\u2019t just be in European private collections and museums.<\/em>\u201d Ethiopia, the East African nation in the Horn of Africa, filed a formal restitution claim in 2007 asking that the UK return hundreds of ancient artifacts and manuscripts. These items were taken in 1868 during the capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.\n\nALSO READ: France Returns Stolen 19th Century Artifact To Senegal<\/a><\/strong>\n

According to the Association For the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET<\/a>), only 10 of the 468 items<\/a> known to have been seized at Maqdala have been returned. However, about 80 of those items are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/a> This includes a number of tabots believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on earth\u2014a symbol of the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n\n

\"\"<\/a>
Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740. Museum no. M.27-2005. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London Responds<\/h2>\nThe Ethiopian government\u2019s claim to the items was denied by the museum. However, the Museum\u2019s Director, Tristam Hunt, suggested a compromise in an interview with UK\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. In Hunt's opinion, \u201cThe speediest way, if Ethiopia wants to have these items on display, is a long-term loan\u2026that would be the easiest way to manage it.\u201d\n\nALSO READ: Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?<\/a><\/strong>\n\nHunt said there were a number of reasons why a simple return was not possible. This includes the legal difficulties around deaccessioning and the \u201cphilosophical case for cosmopolitanism in museum collections.\u201d These items include a gold crown\u2014an important symbol of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Others are, a gold chalice and a royal wedding dress belonging to Queen Woyzaro Terunesh.\n\nQueen Terunesh was the second wife of the Ethiopian emperor, Tewodros. Also, she was the mother of Prince Alemayehu. The prince was brought to England where the government assumed responsibility for his care and education. They have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> (V&A) in London for the past 146 years. They are among 20 separate artifacts that will be on display for the exhibition which starts today, 5th April, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle which sought to secure the release of British hostages taken by Tewodros.\n\nRead More Here >><\/a><\/strong>","post_title":"Ethiopia Wants Its Looted Artifacts Returned And London Gives Interesting Response","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ethiopia-wants-colonial-era-looted-artifacts-returned-and-london-responds","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/thenerveafrica.com\/16619\/uk-museum-offers-return-ethiopias-stolen-treasures-loan\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

France\u2019s former minister of foreign affairs, Jean-Marc Ayrault, previously rejected an official request for restitution in 2016<\/a> on the grounds of the \u201cinalienability\u201d of its national collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Macron\u2019s recent statement at the \u00c9lys\u00e9e implies that there could be a change to French law on the inalienability of objects in the national collection. \u201cOperational and, where appropriate, legislative, measures will be taken to allow these works to return to Benin, accompanied by the know-how of the museum which has preserved them until now,\u201d Macron said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benin will now be offered access to the 26 objects on a temporary basis while officials study how to implement the restitution into French law, a spokesperson for the \u00c9lys\u00e9e told Artnet News, adding that it\u2019s up to the French ministry of culture to decide how to proceed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

France is beginning with objects from Benin because, to date, it is the only country from which France has received a formal request. But the objects are among some 90,000 works from sub-Saharan Africa in French public collections, according to the report, including nearly 70,000 in the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in fact, the 26 artifacts returning to Benin have been in the works for nearly a year. \u201cIt is a little bit unfortunate that it appears as the sudden decision of Emmanuel Macron,\u201d Felicity Bodenstein, a historian of ethnographic collections at Berlin\u2019s Technical University, told Artnet News. \u201cIt is not. Curators at the Quai Branly have been engaged in this dialogue for quite some time now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The French president called on his ministries of culture and foreign affairs to take steps to ensure \u201cAfrican youth has access in Africa and not just in Europe to their own heritage and the common heritage of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking Beyond France<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Other European nations holding African collections acquired under comparable circumstances should also engage in the conversation, Macron urged on Friday. He invited African and European partners to meet in Paris in the first three months of 2019 to \u201cbuild together this new relationship and policy of exchange.\u201d The consultation will bring together African states and former European colonial powers such as Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK\u2019s British Museum, in particular, holds a number of colonial-era artifacts. Contacted by Artnet News, a spokesperson for the museum said that it is barred from deaccessioning objects in its collection under the British Museum Act, but that the trustees welcome Macron\u2019s advocacy for the circulation of objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Plaques
Plaques that form part of the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum. Photo by Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are complicated histories and a transparent focus on the provenance of objects is indispensable,\u201d the museum\u2019s trustees wrote in a statement. They pointed out that the British Museum has already committed to lending objects to Benin City\u2019s planned new Royal Museum<\/a> on a rotating basis, and that it is part of their mission to make the collection as widely accessible as possible to a global public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to use the extraordinary collections in museums to re-write the narrative of a one-sided history to a shared equitable and collaborative one. The British Museum is ready to play its part in that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topic is of particular interest to Germany, too. Most of the objects headed for a show planned at the new cultural center in Berlin, the Humboldt Forum<\/a>, date from the colonial era. \u201cGerman museums will certainly follow suit,\u201d said Felicity Bodenstein. But the debate there is different than in France because Germany cannot pass one law to apply to all of its museums, which are under the jurisdiction of various regional governments. \u201cDecisions get made very differently in these countries so the timing and form of restitution will not be the same,\u201d Bodenstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe looted art must be returned, this also applies to cultural assets from colonial contexts,\u201d a spokesperson for the German minister of culture Monika Gr\u00fctters told Monopol<\/a>. \u201cThis presupposes provenance research, which Germany has clearly intensified in recent years and is continuing to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savoy and Sarr\u2019s 190-page report is currently available to read online<\/a> and will be released in book form tomorrow from publishing house Philippe Rey-Seuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: On the Heels of a Dramatic Restitution Report, France Is Returning 26 Artifacts to Benin. Will Other Countries Follow Suit? | artnet News<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"france-is-returning-26-artifacts-to-benin-will-other-countries-follow-suit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/macron-26-benin-bronzes-restitution-1402570","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":54280,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_content":"\n\nWith colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade came the loss of Africa\u2019s artifacts and items of cultural heritage. These items now sit at museums and displays around the world. For years, debates on repatriating looted objects have been ongoing in Europe and the United States. There are also interesting movements like those lobbying British institutions for the return of Nigerian bronze artifacts looted from the Benin kingdom in 1897. However, the conversation started last year.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France recently made the return of African artifacts  \u201ca top priority\u201d for his country. He said that \u201cAfrican heritage can\u2019t just be in European private collections and museums.<\/em>\u201d Ethiopia, the East African nation in the Horn of Africa, filed a formal restitution claim in 2007 asking that the UK return hundreds of ancient artifacts and manuscripts. These items were taken in 1868 during the capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.\n\nALSO READ: France Returns Stolen 19th Century Artifact To Senegal<\/a><\/strong>\n

According to the Association For the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET<\/a>), only 10 of the 468 items<\/a> known to have been seized at Maqdala have been returned. However, about 80 of those items are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/a> This includes a number of tabots believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on earth\u2014a symbol of the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n\n

\"\"<\/a>
Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740. Museum no. M.27-2005. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London Responds<\/h2>\nThe Ethiopian government\u2019s claim to the items was denied by the museum. However, the Museum\u2019s Director, Tristam Hunt, suggested a compromise in an interview with UK\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. In Hunt's opinion, \u201cThe speediest way, if Ethiopia wants to have these items on display, is a long-term loan\u2026that would be the easiest way to manage it.\u201d\n\nALSO READ: Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?<\/a><\/strong>\n\nHunt said there were a number of reasons why a simple return was not possible. This includes the legal difficulties around deaccessioning and the \u201cphilosophical case for cosmopolitanism in museum collections.\u201d These items include a gold crown\u2014an important symbol of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Others are, a gold chalice and a royal wedding dress belonging to Queen Woyzaro Terunesh.\n\nQueen Terunesh was the second wife of the Ethiopian emperor, Tewodros. Also, she was the mother of Prince Alemayehu. The prince was brought to England where the government assumed responsibility for his care and education. They have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> (V&A) in London for the past 146 years. They are among 20 separate artifacts that will be on display for the exhibition which starts today, 5th April, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle which sought to secure the release of British hostages taken by Tewodros.\n\nRead More Here >><\/a><\/strong>","post_title":"Ethiopia Wants Its Looted Artifacts Returned And London Gives Interesting Response","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ethiopia-wants-colonial-era-looted-artifacts-returned-and-london-responds","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/thenerveafrica.com\/16619\/uk-museum-offers-return-ethiopias-stolen-treasures-loan\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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King Behanzin of Benin poses in front of a statue representing his early 19th-century ancestor at the Quai Branly in 2010. Photo by Boris Horvat\/AFP\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

France\u2019s former minister of foreign affairs, Jean-Marc Ayrault, previously rejected an official request for restitution in 2016<\/a> on the grounds of the \u201cinalienability\u201d of its national collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Macron\u2019s recent statement at the \u00c9lys\u00e9e implies that there could be a change to French law on the inalienability of objects in the national collection. \u201cOperational and, where appropriate, legislative, measures will be taken to allow these works to return to Benin, accompanied by the know-how of the museum which has preserved them until now,\u201d Macron said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benin will now be offered access to the 26 objects on a temporary basis while officials study how to implement the restitution into French law, a spokesperson for the \u00c9lys\u00e9e told Artnet News, adding that it\u2019s up to the French ministry of culture to decide how to proceed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

France is beginning with objects from Benin because, to date, it is the only country from which France has received a formal request. But the objects are among some 90,000 works from sub-Saharan Africa in French public collections, according to the report, including nearly 70,000 in the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in fact, the 26 artifacts returning to Benin have been in the works for nearly a year. \u201cIt is a little bit unfortunate that it appears as the sudden decision of Emmanuel Macron,\u201d Felicity Bodenstein, a historian of ethnographic collections at Berlin\u2019s Technical University, told Artnet News. \u201cIt is not. Curators at the Quai Branly have been engaged in this dialogue for quite some time now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The French president called on his ministries of culture and foreign affairs to take steps to ensure \u201cAfrican youth has access in Africa and not just in Europe to their own heritage and the common heritage of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking Beyond France<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Other European nations holding African collections acquired under comparable circumstances should also engage in the conversation, Macron urged on Friday. He invited African and European partners to meet in Paris in the first three months of 2019 to \u201cbuild together this new relationship and policy of exchange.\u201d The consultation will bring together African states and former European colonial powers such as Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK\u2019s British Museum, in particular, holds a number of colonial-era artifacts. Contacted by Artnet News, a spokesperson for the museum said that it is barred from deaccessioning objects in its collection under the British Museum Act, but that the trustees welcome Macron\u2019s advocacy for the circulation of objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Plaques
Plaques that form part of the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum. Photo by Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are complicated histories and a transparent focus on the provenance of objects is indispensable,\u201d the museum\u2019s trustees wrote in a statement. They pointed out that the British Museum has already committed to lending objects to Benin City\u2019s planned new Royal Museum<\/a> on a rotating basis, and that it is part of their mission to make the collection as widely accessible as possible to a global public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to use the extraordinary collections in museums to re-write the narrative of a one-sided history to a shared equitable and collaborative one. The British Museum is ready to play its part in that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topic is of particular interest to Germany, too. Most of the objects headed for a show planned at the new cultural center in Berlin, the Humboldt Forum<\/a>, date from the colonial era. \u201cGerman museums will certainly follow suit,\u201d said Felicity Bodenstein. But the debate there is different than in France because Germany cannot pass one law to apply to all of its museums, which are under the jurisdiction of various regional governments. \u201cDecisions get made very differently in these countries so the timing and form of restitution will not be the same,\u201d Bodenstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe looted art must be returned, this also applies to cultural assets from colonial contexts,\u201d a spokesperson for the German minister of culture Monika Gr\u00fctters told Monopol<\/a>. \u201cThis presupposes provenance research, which Germany has clearly intensified in recent years and is continuing to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savoy and Sarr\u2019s 190-page report is currently available to read online<\/a> and will be released in book form tomorrow from publishing house Philippe Rey-Seuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: On the Heels of a Dramatic Restitution Report, France Is Returning 26 Artifacts to Benin. Will Other Countries Follow Suit? | artnet News<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"france-is-returning-26-artifacts-to-benin-will-other-countries-follow-suit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/macron-26-benin-bronzes-restitution-1402570","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":54280,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_content":"\n\nWith colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade came the loss of Africa\u2019s artifacts and items of cultural heritage. These items now sit at museums and displays around the world. For years, debates on repatriating looted objects have been ongoing in Europe and the United States. There are also interesting movements like those lobbying British institutions for the return of Nigerian bronze artifacts looted from the Benin kingdom in 1897. However, the conversation started last year.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France recently made the return of African artifacts  \u201ca top priority\u201d for his country. He said that \u201cAfrican heritage can\u2019t just be in European private collections and museums.<\/em>\u201d Ethiopia, the East African nation in the Horn of Africa, filed a formal restitution claim in 2007 asking that the UK return hundreds of ancient artifacts and manuscripts. These items were taken in 1868 during the capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.\n\nALSO READ: France Returns Stolen 19th Century Artifact To Senegal<\/a><\/strong>\n

According to the Association For the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET<\/a>), only 10 of the 468 items<\/a> known to have been seized at Maqdala have been returned. However, about 80 of those items are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/a> This includes a number of tabots believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on earth\u2014a symbol of the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n\n

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Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740. Museum no. M.27-2005. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London Responds<\/h2>\nThe Ethiopian government\u2019s claim to the items was denied by the museum. However, the Museum\u2019s Director, Tristam Hunt, suggested a compromise in an interview with UK\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. In Hunt's opinion, \u201cThe speediest way, if Ethiopia wants to have these items on display, is a long-term loan\u2026that would be the easiest way to manage it.\u201d\n\nALSO READ: Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?<\/a><\/strong>\n\nHunt said there were a number of reasons why a simple return was not possible. This includes the legal difficulties around deaccessioning and the \u201cphilosophical case for cosmopolitanism in museum collections.\u201d These items include a gold crown\u2014an important symbol of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Others are, a gold chalice and a royal wedding dress belonging to Queen Woyzaro Terunesh.\n\nQueen Terunesh was the second wife of the Ethiopian emperor, Tewodros. Also, she was the mother of Prince Alemayehu. The prince was brought to England where the government assumed responsibility for his care and education. They have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> (V&A) in London for the past 146 years. They are among 20 separate artifacts that will be on display for the exhibition which starts today, 5th April, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle which sought to secure the release of British hostages taken by Tewodros.\n\nRead More Here >><\/a><\/strong>","post_title":"Ethiopia Wants Its Looted Artifacts Returned And London Gives Interesting Response","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ethiopia-wants-colonial-era-looted-artifacts-returned-and-london-responds","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/thenerveafrica.com\/16619\/uk-museum-offers-return-ethiopias-stolen-treasures-loan\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Twenty-six bronze artifacts taken from Benin during the colonial era will be returned from France to their country of origin. The news comes on the heels of a dramatic report<\/a> presented at the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace on Friday, advising French President Emmanuel Macron to enact a permanent restitution agenda for all art taken \u201cwithout consent\u201d from Africa during the colonial era.<\/p>\n

The report, titled \u201cTowards a new relational ethics,\u201d has been met with horror by some French museum and gallery directors, who fear this will open a \u201cPandora\u2019s Box\u201d of restitution claims that will empty French museums of their treasures.<\/p>\n

Macron commissioned the report in March<\/a> following the French president\u2019s now famous declaration in Ouagadougou<\/a> last year, in which he stated that he wanted to see the conditions set for the repatriation of African heritage within the next five years. He tasked art historian B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Savoy and economist Felwine Sarr, the authors of the report, with recommending a path toward this goal.<\/p>\n

At the presentation on Friday, Macron called on French museums to identify African partners and begin organizing returns. He also called for the rapid establishment of an online inventory of museums\u2019 African collections, including systematic provenance research, according to a statement from the presidential palace.<\/p>\n

ALSO READ: West African Protesters Demand Their Countries Abandon the French Colonial CFA Currency<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

The Benin Bronzes<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Based on a proposal from the Quai Branly\u2013Jacques Chirac Museum and the French ministry of culture, Macron has ordered the return of 26 works requested by Benin authorities \u201cwithout delay.\u201d The artifacts in question, which include three statues of the kings of Abomey, thrones and ornamental doors, and a statue of the god Gou, were looted during General Dodd\u2019s bloody siege on the B\u00e9hanzin palace in 1892. In Benin, they will be shared with the public in the context of an ambitious new museum project.<\/p>\n

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King Behanzin of Benin poses in front of a statue representing his early 19th-century ancestor at the Quai Branly in 2010. Photo by Boris Horvat\/AFP\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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France\u2019s former minister of foreign affairs, Jean-Marc Ayrault, previously rejected an official request for restitution in 2016<\/a> on the grounds of the \u201cinalienability\u201d of its national collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Macron\u2019s recent statement at the \u00c9lys\u00e9e implies that there could be a change to French law on the inalienability of objects in the national collection. \u201cOperational and, where appropriate, legislative, measures will be taken to allow these works to return to Benin, accompanied by the know-how of the museum which has preserved them until now,\u201d Macron said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benin will now be offered access to the 26 objects on a temporary basis while officials study how to implement the restitution into French law, a spokesperson for the \u00c9lys\u00e9e told Artnet News, adding that it\u2019s up to the French ministry of culture to decide how to proceed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

France is beginning with objects from Benin because, to date, it is the only country from which France has received a formal request. But the objects are among some 90,000 works from sub-Saharan Africa in French public collections, according to the report, including nearly 70,000 in the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in fact, the 26 artifacts returning to Benin have been in the works for nearly a year. \u201cIt is a little bit unfortunate that it appears as the sudden decision of Emmanuel Macron,\u201d Felicity Bodenstein, a historian of ethnographic collections at Berlin\u2019s Technical University, told Artnet News. \u201cIt is not. Curators at the Quai Branly have been engaged in this dialogue for quite some time now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The French president called on his ministries of culture and foreign affairs to take steps to ensure \u201cAfrican youth has access in Africa and not just in Europe to their own heritage and the common heritage of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking Beyond France<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Other European nations holding African collections acquired under comparable circumstances should also engage in the conversation, Macron urged on Friday. He invited African and European partners to meet in Paris in the first three months of 2019 to \u201cbuild together this new relationship and policy of exchange.\u201d The consultation will bring together African states and former European colonial powers such as Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK\u2019s British Museum, in particular, holds a number of colonial-era artifacts. Contacted by Artnet News, a spokesperson for the museum said that it is barred from deaccessioning objects in its collection under the British Museum Act, but that the trustees welcome Macron\u2019s advocacy for the circulation of objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plaques that form part of the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum. Photo by Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are complicated histories and a transparent focus on the provenance of objects is indispensable,\u201d the museum\u2019s trustees wrote in a statement. They pointed out that the British Museum has already committed to lending objects to Benin City\u2019s planned new Royal Museum<\/a> on a rotating basis, and that it is part of their mission to make the collection as widely accessible as possible to a global public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to use the extraordinary collections in museums to re-write the narrative of a one-sided history to a shared equitable and collaborative one. The British Museum is ready to play its part in that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topic is of particular interest to Germany, too. Most of the objects headed for a show planned at the new cultural center in Berlin, the Humboldt Forum<\/a>, date from the colonial era. \u201cGerman museums will certainly follow suit,\u201d said Felicity Bodenstein. But the debate there is different than in France because Germany cannot pass one law to apply to all of its museums, which are under the jurisdiction of various regional governments. \u201cDecisions get made very differently in these countries so the timing and form of restitution will not be the same,\u201d Bodenstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe looted art must be returned, this also applies to cultural assets from colonial contexts,\u201d a spokesperson for the German minister of culture Monika Gr\u00fctters told Monopol<\/a>. \u201cThis presupposes provenance research, which Germany has clearly intensified in recent years and is continuing to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savoy and Sarr\u2019s 190-page report is currently available to read online<\/a> and will be released in book form tomorrow from publishing house Philippe Rey-Seuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: On the Heels of a Dramatic Restitution Report, France Is Returning 26 Artifacts to Benin. Will Other Countries Follow Suit? | artnet News<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"france-is-returning-26-artifacts-to-benin-will-other-countries-follow-suit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-16 08:32:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/macron-26-benin-bronzes-restitution-1402570","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":54280,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-06 10:17:44","post_content":"\n\nWith colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade came the loss of Africa\u2019s artifacts and items of cultural heritage. These items now sit at museums and displays around the world. For years, debates on repatriating looted objects have been ongoing in Europe and the United States. There are also interesting movements like those lobbying British institutions for the return of Nigerian bronze artifacts looted from the Benin kingdom in 1897. However, the conversation started last year.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France recently made the return of African artifacts  \u201ca top priority\u201d for his country. He said that \u201cAfrican heritage can\u2019t just be in European private collections and museums.<\/em>\u201d Ethiopia, the East African nation in the Horn of Africa, filed a formal restitution claim in 2007 asking that the UK return hundreds of ancient artifacts and manuscripts. These items were taken in 1868 during the capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.\n\nALSO READ: France Returns Stolen 19th Century Artifact To Senegal<\/a><\/strong>\n

According to the Association For the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET<\/a>), only 10 of the 468 items<\/a> known to have been seized at Maqdala have been returned. However, about 80 of those items are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/a> This includes a number of tabots believed by Ethiopian Christians to be the dwelling place of God on earth\u2014a symbol of the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n\n

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Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740. Museum no. M.27-2005. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London Responds<\/h2>\nThe Ethiopian government\u2019s claim to the items was denied by the museum. However, the Museum\u2019s Director, Tristam Hunt, suggested a compromise in an interview with UK\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. In Hunt's opinion, \u201cThe speediest way, if Ethiopia wants to have these items on display, is a long-term loan\u2026that would be the easiest way to manage it.\u201d\n\nALSO READ: Benin Is Getting Back 26 Of Its Looted Artifacts from The Colonial Era. Will Others Follow Suit?<\/a><\/strong>\n\nHunt said there were a number of reasons why a simple return was not possible. This includes the legal difficulties around deaccessioning and the \u201cphilosophical case for cosmopolitanism in museum collections.\u201d These items include a gold crown\u2014an important symbol of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Others are, a gold chalice and a royal wedding dress belonging to Queen Woyzaro Terunesh.\n\nQueen Terunesh was the second wife of the Ethiopian emperor, Tewodros. Also, she was the mother of Prince Alemayehu. The prince was brought to England where the government assumed responsibility for his care and education. They have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> (V&A) in London for the past 146 years. They are among 20 separate artifacts that will be on display for the exhibition which starts today, 5th April, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle which sought to secure the release of British hostages taken by Tewodros.\n\nRead More Here >><\/a><\/strong>","post_title":"Ethiopia Wants Its Looted Artifacts Returned And London Gives Interesting Response","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ethiopia-wants-colonial-era-looted-artifacts-returned-and-london-responds","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-06 02:29:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/thenerveafrica.com\/16619\/uk-museum-offers-return-ethiopias-stolen-treasures-loan\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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