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should treasures grabbed by european colonisers be returned to their countries of origin? well, my guest is the director of the humboldt forum, hartmut dorgerloh. is germany right now the leader in the restitution movement? hartmut dorgerloh, welcome to hardtalk. hello. it's a great pleasure to be in this amazing museum. i think it's fair to say this is perhaps the most ambitious cultural project launched since the unification of germany. what is the... the motivating idea behind it? yes, it's the most prominent cultural project since the reunification in germany, and it is a debate ...

to their countries of origin? well, my guest is the director of the humboldt forum, hartmut dorgerloh. is germany right now the leader in the restitution movement? hartmut dorgerloh, welcome to hardtalk. hello. it's a great pleasure to be in this amazing museum. i think it's fair to say this is perhaps the most ambitious cultural project launched since the unification of germany. what is the... the motivating idea behind it? yes, it's the most prominent cultural project since the reunification in germany, and it is a debate also about the new heart of the new capital of reunified ger...

Qtopia founding chair David Polson tells Star Observer about the upcoming opening of Sydney's LGBTQI Museum and the journey that led us to this moment. 

And less about objects? though it is, i think, generally a discussion about the museum and future, that it's more a place, first a place for people and then for objects. and in a case like this, in this temporary exhibition, the curatorship or the curator responsibility, was given to an artist of origin. she's from nagaland herself and she, zubeni lotha, decided, in collaboration with the curator from the museum, how it should look and how her photographs, her contemporary works as a commentary was involved into the exhibition. and in our case it is about dance, it's about music, it's about so...

..very eurocentric, a very european concept. the museum in general, as an institution. and i think we have to redefine what museum can do right now. we have to talk about the history of the institution, the circumstances, how these items were brought together, about colonialism, but also about other power relations within the world, and we have to reflect that the situation in mexico was quite different from what happens in tanzania or what happens in china. so if you are talking about objects from all over the world, we have to look more carefully what are. . .what happens in these years. but...