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New video game lets you steal back African artifacts from museums that took them - Relooted sees players infiltrate museums to retrieve real-world African artifacts taken during colonial era ...
The artifacts at the heart of “Relooted” are real and “are of huge cultural, historical, and spiritual significance to the ...
The Rosetta Stone and the Elgin Marbles may draw the crowds, but this famous museum's collection from West and Southern ...
Western museums hold countless African artifacts looted during colonial times, and while some are finally coming home, it's an uphill battle.
The British Museum has solicited the public’s help in finding up to 2,000 artifacts that had been stolen over several years.
The museum is also making amends for failures in its own collecting and curating practices that have have left vast gaps in its previous offerings around African culture and design.
Museums worldwide are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Here's why it matters, who's receiving them, and what it means ...
Two British museums, the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum, are returning looted gold and silver artifacts to Ghana through a long-term loan arrangement.
With Relooted, the restitution of African art enters the language of video games, as the global debate takes shape in ...
In February 2024, seven royal artifacts looted from British-colonised Ghana ’s Asante Kingdom were returned by the UCLA’s Fowler Museum after over 150 years abroad.