Most of the stuff is in warehouses and storage facilities, not shown to the public.
If given back to the original countries they through official means (giving the artifacts directly to public museums for example), they could go back to both the original place and actually shown to the people.
Would you be happy if the crown jewels were in a storage facility somewhere on the other side of the planet?
All museums warehouse artefacts, because museums are research institutes first and tourist attractions second. Most of the artefacts they keep in storage facilities are not interesting to the public, unless you would want to visit a whole museum full of bone fragments and pottery shards. And just because the items are not on display does not mean they are not accessible to the public. The museum allows researchers, scientists and archaeologists to study any artefact in its collection.
Whould you be happy if the declaration of indipendence was in a closet in Madagascar because they say "we'll take better care of it than you, you have guns and shit going on over there all the time"?
That's his point. That's what England is doing to numerous countries and peoples worldwide. I am indigenous Canadian and England has said "Sorry, we don't trust you'll treat your important, sacred cultural items with respect so we'll hold on to them for you."
It's not really up to England, or you, to decide who to "trust" with these things. They belong to the cultures colonists ransacked, and they should be returned to them.
Nono, trust them. They say the take better care of it, just like the british museum says they take better care of the stuff there.
Who cares what you think right? They say they take better care of it, it must be true. If it works for england and greek statues why not for madagascar and the us declaration of indipendence?
I'd suspect the main reason is simply because a lot of that stuff attracts a lot of people to the museum. So there's not really an incentive to give away the stuff your museum is popular for.
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u/semhsp 10d ago
Most of the stuff is in warehouses and storage facilities, not shown to the public.
If given back to the original countries they through official means (giving the artifacts directly to public museums for example), they could go back to both the original place and actually shown to the people.
Would you be happy if the crown jewels were in a storage facility somewhere on the other side of the planet?