Conversations between communities and institutions around the world are ramping up, with museums and universities agreeing to return culturally significant items. But in the case of the British Museum, there is one big roadblock.
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Typically there hasn’t been a huge amount of urgency attached to seeing our museums’ greatest treasures: many of the exhibits are hundreds, if not thousands, of years old already; and for better or worse, it’s never seemed like they were going anywhere fast.