The Netherlands returned Prince Diponegoro s dagger to Indonesia last year in a ceremony attended by Ingrid van Engelshoven, the Dutch culture minister, I Gusti Agung Wesaka Puja, Indonesia’s ambassador to the Netherlands, and Stijn Schoonderwoerd, director of the Museum of Ethnology © OCW / Freek van den Bergh
The Dutch government has approved a plan to repatriate artefacts removed from former colonies, adopting recommendations by an advisory commission that called for the “recognition that an injustice was done to the local populations of former colonial territories when cultural objects were taken against their will.”
The committee, chaired by Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You, last year recommended that museums should not only consider claims for items known to have been looted, but also requests for the return of those with no full provenance records especially in cases where the objects are of “cultural, historical, or religious importance to the sou
Нидерландский музей выложил в сеть 709 тыс работ
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Нідерландський музей виклав в мережу 709 тис робіт
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