Coloniality and the British Museums
Coloniality and the British Museums | History Workshop
A digital magazine of radical history. It seeks to deepen understandings of the past, cast light on the present and agitate for change.
Collecting and empire trail | British Museum
The British Museum was founded in 1753: its history and collection are shaped by empire and the colonial exploitation of people and resources. This trail ...
But then a large part of that you're going to find comes from all over the world. Some of these works were acquired through war through colonialism. A lot of ...
Unfinished histories: Imagining a Museum of British Colonialism
A Museum of British Colonialism, in a radical fashion, can be a place of questioning current power structures and their relation to legacies of ...
The museum of british colonialism is a joint uk/kenyan initiative founded to creatively communicate a more truthful account of british colonialism.
How British Museums Are Reckoning with Their Colonial Pasts
Tate Britain has installed a new video addressing a controversial mural by Rex Whistler while a statue of slave trader Edward Colston has gone on view in a ...
A 21st Century Empire: The British Museum and its Imperial Legacies
close to the lasting colonial legacy of the British Museum. Over the last several decades, governments and museums of former colonial powers have made ...
Decolonization in London Museums: A Firsthand Look at Progress ...
Decolonization in London Museums: A Firsthand Look at Progress and Challenges · 1. Re-examining Collections. Many London museums are conducting ...
Addressing colonial narratives in museums | The British Academy
Museums filled with objects of colonial collection have been robustly pro-active in exploring the multiple histories of their collections.
British Museum - (Art and Colonialism) - Fiveable
The British Museum reflects the legacy of colonial power through its extensive collection of artifacts acquired during Britain's imperial expansion. Many items ...
A Trip to the British Museum Through the Eyes of a History Student
Seeing this mask and reading about its history reminded me of the long-term effects of colonialism, such as the fact that homosexuality is still ...
Museums' complicated relationship with colonialism - 360 - 360info
Since Britain ruled over a vast empire, the engagement of British museums with their colonial past and how they repurposed their collections in ...
At British Museum, a Promising But Flawed Start to Grappling With ...
“Empire and Collecting,” a new self-guided tour, reflects an attempt to help visitors understand the colonial origins of the collection. Avatar ...
Museum Objects and Colonialism • Leeds Explores the World
Museums across Britain contain artefacts—artworks, sculptures, ceramics, tools, clothing, armour, documents and so on—that are from all over the world and ...
Our statement on Decolonisation - Museums Association
Decolonisation is not simply the relocation of a statue or an object; it is a long-term process that seeks to recognise the integral role of empire in British ...
Thief Meets Thief: The British Museum and Colonialism
After the brutal and bloody conflict, the soldiers took the spears and arrows used by the Chibok warriors, now among nearly 73,000 items of ...
Museums must do more to acknowledge Britain's colonial past
Letter: Wendy Barnaby praises the Tate Britain curator David Bailey for addressing the legacy of slavery, and says other galleries and ...
Collecting and empire | British Museum
The British Museum's history and collection are intimately linked to the history of the British Empire and the era of European colonialism.
An Object of Colonial Power in the British Museum
The British Museum's collection houses a curious printed object serving as the title page for the third edition of Richard Brathwaite's text The English ...
The British Museum and a Meditation on Colonial Trauma
For the occasional keen tourist who engages with the museum as a museum rather than a glorified photo-op, this description is a way of informing ...