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Magazine Article
Culture War: The Case Against Repatriating Museum Artifacts
2014
Overview
Claims on the national identity of antiquities are at the root of many states' cultural property laws, which in the last few decades have been used by governments to reclaim objects from museums and other collections abroad. Despite UNESCO's declaration that \"no culture is a hermetically sealed entity,\" governments are increasingly making claims of ownership of cultural property on the basis of self-proclaimed and fixed state-based identities. In an era of globalization that is nonetheless marked by resurgent nationalism and sectarianism, antiquities and their history should not be used to stoke such narrow identities. Instead, they should express the guiding principles of the world's great museums: pluralism, diversity, and the idea that culture shouldn't stop at borders-and nor, for that matter, should the cosmopolitan ideals represented by encyclopedic museums. Rather than acquiesce to frivolous, if stubborn, calls for repatriation, often accompanied by threats of cultural embargoes, encyclopedic museums should encourage the development of mutually beneficial relationships with museums everywhere in the world that share their cosmopolitan vision.
Publisher
Council on Foreign Relations,Council on Foreign Relations, Inc,Council on Foreign Relations NY
Subject
/ Antiquities, Collection and preservation
/ Borders
/ Busts
/ Cultural property repatriation
/ Cultural property, Protection
/ Cultural property, Protection, Law and legislation
/ Culture
/ ESSAYS
/ History
/ Multiculturalism & pluralism
/ Museums
/ Property
/ UNESCO
