The Western Illinois University Museum Studies program, in conjunction with the Figge Art Museum and the Putnam Museum, will host the Power of Place: Celebrating our Museum Community, 2023 Iowa Museum Association (IMA) Annual Conference Oct. 2-3, with a kick off event at the German American Heritage Center Oct 1.
the flooding was triggered by a near record downpour over one of the hottest, driest spots on earth. a london museum says it will return ownership of artefacts that were looted in the nineteenth century to nigeria. the horniman museum said 72 objects which were forcibly removed from the kingdom of benin, during a british military incursion in 1897, would be handed over to the nigerian government. sathnam sanghera is a columnist and feature writer at the times and author of the book empireland. i spoke to him earlier and he told me momentum was building for this campaign to return looted artefacts within the museum community: germany returned about 1000 benin bronzes a while ago, or agreed to. france has returned some. jesus college cambridge, aberdeen university. the problem is our national museums are not returning theirs, and i feel like they re falling behind the international