Colonialism and repatriation
Some facts concerning Egypt Centre and repatriation of
objects:
- Egypt
Centre doesn’t own most of the objects in its care. They belong to the
Wellcome Trust
- Egyptian
officials have never asked Egypt Centre to return objects
- For
many objects we are not sure from where in
Egypt
they were taken
- The
objects we have were not taken illegally from
Egypt
- Many
of the objects were sold by the Egyptians to Europeans
Some other issues to consider:
- Are
the objects we have on display our heritage or those of modern Egyptians?
- Should
we ask modern Egyptians how to display their heritage?
Europeans sometimes see ancient
Egypt
as part of western culture but modern
Egypt
as not. Should we display more things from
Egypt
after the pharaohs?
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