How the treasures of the past ended up in Museums
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2016 · Education
Tiffany Jenkins, author of Keeping Their Marbles, discusses how western museums acquired their artefacts. She examines why repatriation claims of those objects have escalated over the past three decades, ultimately arguing that museums are being increasingly seen as vehicles to repair the mistakes of the past. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/keeping-their-marbles-9780199657599 Tiffany Jenkins is a writer, cultural sociologist, and regular commentator on social and cultural issues, with a weekly column in The Scotsman. In 2014, she presented the Radio 4 programme Beauty and the Brain, which examined what brain science can tell us about art. © Oxford University Press
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