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The British Museum's Hard Line on Protests
The British Museum's Africa galleries were closed that day. Security guards asked us to surrender our recording equipment before we got into the museum. A guard said the museum takes a hard line because they get in a lot of trouble with protesters. The main attraction is a grid of the famous wall plaques that had been stripped from the Benin Palace.