Belgian experts frustrated at "lack of initiative from museu

Belgian experts frustrated at "lack of initiative from museums and government" call for restitution of colonial-era acquisitions


The Royal Museum of Central Africa at Tervuren has the largest collection of objects acquired in a colonial context
An independent panel of scholars and experts has called on Belgian museums to restitute artefacts acquired in a colonial context and urged the government to create a neutral commission to evaluate restitution requests, an independent institute for provenance research, and a new law to facilitate returns.
Their proposals are similar to guidelines put forward in Germany and the Netherlands. But there is one big difference—in those countries, the guidelines were commissioned and adopted by the authorities. In Belgium, no official proposals on decolonising museums and restituting objects looted in the colonial era have so far been presented.

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