PARIS, April 21 — With tens of thousands of African artworks in French museums, curators face a huge task in trying to identify which of these were plundered during colonial...
PARIS, April 21 — With tens of thousands of African artworks in French museums, curators face a huge task in trying to identify which of these were plundered during colonial rule in the 19th and 20th centuries and should be returned.
The effort has stalled, and in March the government indefinitely postponed a bill authorising the return of African and other cultural artefacts following right-wing resistance in the Senate. Most — 79,000 — are in the Quai Branly museum in Paris dedicated to indigenous art from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas.The task is “titanic and exhilarating”, said Emilie Salaberry, head of the Angouleme Museum, which houses around 5,000 African objects.‘Real investigative work’
France’s Army Museum began its inventory in 2012 but has only been able to study around a quarter of its 2,248 African pieces.
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