Welcome back to The Musings Podcast for season 2! In this episode we discuss the complex topic of Repatriation of museum artifacts, the meanings of culture, heritage, cultural heritage, cultural continuity, nations, repatriation, ownership and stewardship . This has been an incredibly rewarding topic to research and learn about, and much of what we learned could not feature in the episode, however all links are featured down below and we highly recommend reading them! Thank you for listening last season and we hope you enjoy!

Sources: 

Vox: The British Museum is full of stolen artifacts:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoTxiRWrvp8

The Verge: Ill-gotten gains: https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/13/4326306/museum-artifacts-looted-repatriation

Wiki British Museum controversies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum#Controversies

The Guardian: BM is world's largest receiver of stolen goods, says QC: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/04/british-museum-is-worlds-largest-receiver-of-stolen-goods-says-qc

The Guardian: Why western museums should keep their treasures: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/nov/25/benin-bronzes-why-western-museums-should-keep-treasures

Standford Phil: Cultural Heritage: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fplato.stanford.edu%2Fentries%2Fethics-cultural-heritage%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cdf47f884da6e40a1de9508d84034f436%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637329943468290767&sdata=4PA%2BwJBpwjuIexR16GOv47hAZFM6rZ2wdDy7sXtoDss%3D&reserved=0

The Conversation: why Western museums should return African artifacts: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconversation.com%2Frepatriation-why-western-museums-should-return-african-artefacts-117061&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cdf47f884da6e40a1de9508d84034f436%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637329943468310769&sdata=aaRMsEyUwFxOiIZZWcKuMzcpn%2BrQblqHZB02Ox39SBA%3D&reserved=0

Jenkins 2018: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv512v68.13?seq=11#metadata_info_tab_contents

The Guardian: Should museums return their colonial artefacts: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jun/29/should-museums-return-their-colonial-artefacts

History Today: Do historical objects belong in their country of origin: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.historytoday.com%2Farchive%2Fhead-head%2Fdo-historical-objects-belong-their-country-origin&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cdf47f884da6e40a1de9508d84034f436%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637329943468340727&sdata=0SlX2yHRvQEwuCC2gQ9ZnHy8ctoydJuxpcv1A2NfplU%3D&reserved=0

Wiki British Museum Act 1963: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum_Act_1963

Music:

Nocturne in B Flat Minor, Op. 9 No. 1: "A Madame Camille Pleyel" · François Chaplin  Chopin: Nocturnes  ℗ 2013 Zig-Zag Territoires ℗ Anima Eterna  Released on: 2010-03-01  Composer: Frédéric Chopin