Some of the biggest museums in the world are having a long overdue reckoning about their collections. Back in 20 19, the metropolitan museum of art in new york had to give back a gilded coffin that was looted from egypt. The denver art museum is returning sculptures to cambodia. Since the death of george freud, there's been a real push to look at some of the issues around colonialism and more of an effort to repatriate and restitute artifacts that were looted during the colonial era.
The world’s most illustrious museums are finally having to reckon with the stolen art in their collections.
Today’s show was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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