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542. Is a Museum Just a Trophy Case?

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The History of the Benin Plunder

Benedict Savois is a French professor of art history at the Technical University in Berlin. Most important pieces went directly to the British Museum, but the rest has been sold on the art market and the art market around 1900. The richest museums were the German museums because German was a Reich now. And if you are a Reich, an empire, you need a museum.

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