Are museums celebrating cultural heritage—or clinging to stolen
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Hello, my name is Anna Diaz and this is my voiceover demo reel are museums celebrating cultural heritage or clinging to stolen treasure. Curators are realizing the returning looted artifacts is in closing museums. It's opening new doors. The ethnographic Museum of the past is making its way to the exit museums as we know them are mostly 1/19 century invention designed to share the fruits of European exploration and conquest. Colonialism turned collecting into something of mania just as colonial powers didn't send explorers to map the corners of the world for pure love of knowledge. Objects didn't simply fall into museums. Anthropologists, missionaries, merchants and military officers worked with museums to bring wonders and wealth back to Europe. Curators even sent wish lists along with armed colonial expeditions. In 19 oh seven, German officials gave a message to Sultan Ibrahim Nia ruler of Cameron's baum people. Perhaps they suggested a gift to Casar will. The second for his upcoming 50th birthday would be a welcome gesture. Specifically, a precise replica of no Marable elaborately veed throne. An inheritance from the king's father, the throne was known as a man after the pair of protective figures that adorned its back.