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Why we shouldn't see museum artefacts as 'stolen'


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Episode: Why we shouldn't see museum artefacts as 'stolen'
Pub date: 2025-03-30

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Debates about whether museum artefacts should be returned to the cultures that made them have made headlines several times in recent years. But historian and author Justin M Jacobs explains to Matt Elton why he believes that calls for these objects to be repatriated often overlook the wishes of the people who made them in the first place.


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