REPATRIATING HISTORY: should museums be required to return artifacts?
For my second product, after the paper, I decided to do a workshop to talk about my findings and the issue. At the end, the group participated in an activity where they had to argue for repatriation and against.
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For my third project, I researched the repatriation laws in Great Britain and the British Museum Act 1963 in order to rewrite my own laws for the Neues Museum (pictured right).
Summary of the British Museum Act 1963:
The Act established the duties and responsibilities of the Board of Trustees, including how the members are appointed, and how the Board will continue to function after a member leaves. The Act also outlined how the Board members may go about certain duties: the keeping and inspection of collections, the lending of objects, and the disposal of objects. To include repatriation in law, I wrote an act for the Neues Museum in Berlin, Germany, which houses two out of three of the objects I focused on: the Benin Bronzes and the Bust of Nefertiti.
