On October 1st we opened in Reusat one hundred km from Barcelona, the first stop of the travelling exhibition “Who Owns History? Struggles for the Decolonisation of Museums,” where it will be on view until October 22 at Biblioteca Xavier Amorós.
Next stops: Salt, Lleida and Barcelona.
The exhibition is curated by Celeste Muñoz, Alba Valenciano and Laida Memb Ikuga.
Through different stories, the exhibition revisits the debates around colonial heritage and the early demands for restitution and the decolonisation of European and Catalan museums.
From 17 panels and abundant complementary material—interviews, press releases and archival documents—the public can get closer to the past and present histories that cross institutions with a universal vocation, such as museums, through questions about the arrivals of colonialism and its question.
