French couple take dealer to court for share of African mask’s €4.2m sale price
Pensioners sold rare object found in attic for €150 – but campaigners say it must be returned to Gabon A retired French couple who sold...
Category : Museums
Access to remains of Bambuti baby withdrawn by London museum
Hunterian had listed stillborn child of African descent as viewable for medical research but removed it after criticism from author The remains of a stillborn...
Germany matches DNA from skulls stolen from African colony to living relatives
Remains pillaged in colonial era for ‘scientific’ experiments are DNA matched to Tanzanian descendants Researchers in Berlin have identified living relatives of people whose remains...
Sudan officials fear for historical artefacts threatened by fighting
Warring factions urged to preserve heritage after video clip appears to show fighters raiding Khartoum museum Heritage officials in Sudan have pleaded with warring factions...
Mayor closes museum of memories in battle over story of Peru’s violent past
Far-right mayor claimed Lima institution peddled false narrative of 1980-2000 conflict in which guerrillas and army killed 70,000 It was supposed to be a museum...
How one Derbyshire museum took initiative in returning Indigenous artefacts
Buxton Museum returned entire collection of Native American and First Nation artefacts to their original communities When Taa.uu ‘Yuuwans Nika Collison first opened the email...
‘Shot two zebras. Played tennis’: Scarborough museum confronts legacy of colonial past
Discovery of stuffed animals from central Africa and recordings from ‘human zoo’ inspires exhibition It was when part of a Scarborough museum was being redeveloped...
Germany returns 21 Benin bronzes to Nigeria – amid frustration at Britain
Artefacts looted in 19th century by UK soldiers and sold on, with many more still held by the British Museum Twenty-one precious artefacts that were...
Forgotten photos show how Kenyan archaeologists unearthed secrets of their own country
Exhibitions in UK and Africa rewrite history by celebrating discoveries of overlooked black excavators in colonial era The photographs are rare, the subject choice unusual,...
‘The sheer scale is extraordinary’: meet the titanosaur that dwarfs Dippy the diplodocus
One of the largest creatures to have walked the Earth is to become the Natural History Museum’s new star attraction It will be one of...
