In order to foster dialogue with a wide audience, the program will take the form of papers, multi-voice interventions and round tables during which community members, historians, museum professionals, researchers, artists, academics and experts will present the results of their work and share their thoughts on the place of mediation with regard to the presence of ancestral human remains in museums.
Empty vitrine in MAAOA after repatriation of Maori skull in 2012
This workshop (journée d’étude) is part of the program of the working group Collections and collectors of non-Western objects in the Mediterranean – EXOCMED funded by the Mission provenance of the Service des Musées de France and led by the TELEMMe laboratory – CNRS AMU and the MAAOA – Musées de la Ville de Marseille, but also within the framework of the HERA project – How to study / repatriate “artifacts” – ancestors?
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On Monday night 16 November 2026, France 3 shows the documentary Vous n’aurez plus nos morts – La restitution des restes humains coloniaux about the repatriation of ancestral remains from French collections.
