Easter Island Ancestral Figure Moai Hava Installed in the “Oceania” Exhibition at theRoyal Academy of Arts on Loan from the British Museum (foto Javier Pes) It S Not Just Art that Indigenous People are Fighting to Reclaim from Museums,They Want Their Ancestors’ Remains Back, Too There are thousands of bones, skulls, and even preserved heads of the victims of colonization hidden in museums’ storage. But repatriation is rarely a simple process. The British Museum, Berlin State Museums, French national museums, and even the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York all have, quite literally, been keeping skeletons in their closets. Institutions across Europe and the US face growing calls, https://news.artnet.com/art-world/easter-island-british-museum-1399990, to return art looted during the colonial era. But there is an even more emotive, and darker, dimension to the problem, of which few museum visitors are likely aware. Western institutions have thousands of skulls, skeletons, bone fragments, and even preserved heads of Indigenous people that will never be displayed. While some have been or are on their way to being returned to their descendants, others lie hidden deep in storage, living in “museum limbo.” Typically donated by collectors, missionaries, and colonial officials in the 19th century, these objects are … Meer lezen over Javier Pes – It S Not Just Art that Indigenous People are Fighting to Reclaim from Museums,They Want Their Ancestors’ Remains Back, Too