Responsibility, relationships, reverence + resolution to return

The American Alliance of Museums has brought out a special issue Museum as part of a larger project exploring the next horizon of museum practice with regard to voluntary repatriation, restitution, and reparations. The articles in this issue provide a window into practices regarding the Benin-objects, lost items of the Yaqui, voluntary returns, and the application of NAGPRA.

The articles in this issue provide a window into practices regarding the Benin-objects, lost items of the Yaqui, voluntary returns, and the application of NAGPRA.

With:

  • Timeline Signal of change in relation to First Nations in US
  • Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba, Benin bronzes controversy
  • Adriana Munoz, The Yaqui case
  • Stephen E. Nash, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
  • Victoria Reed, The art of restitution