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Charlotte Higgins // British Museum director Hartwig Fischer: ‘There are no foreigners here – the museum is a world country’ | Culture | The Guardian

14.4.18

British Museum director Hartwig Fischer: ‘There are no foreigners here – the museum is a world country’ | Culture | The Guardian: Contributed, yes – but not always willingly. The museum’s collection is inextricably entwined with Britain’s dark imperial past. Increasingly, nations want their objects back: not just the Greeks and the Parthenon sculptures, but others – there is a longstanding claim from Ethiopia, for example, about works of art plundered from Maqdala after its capture by the British in 1868.


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