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The Importance of Looting in Museum Curation
Alan Jones is a curator at the Kelvin Grove Museum in Glasgow. He started out as a microbiologist and moved into archaeology before moving to museum curation. His work focuses on repatriation and restitution of world culture, which he says was important because he's not British. "The more I've learned about this topic, the more those museums feel less like curated collections of the world's great treasures"