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Why can the British Museum not return items from Indigenous Australia?
SBS
21 May 2024
Australia
United Kingdom
RM*
18 Dec 2024
Conversations between communities and institutions around the world are ramping up, with museums and universities agreeing to return culturally significant items. But in the case of the British Museum, there is one big roadblock.
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