Katrin Sieg, Director of the BMW Centre for German and European Studies at Georgetown, joined us to discuss how European museums have approached the colonial pasts of European countries, the impact of recent events such as the Black Lives Matter movement and how the restitution of artefacts fits into current discussions of decolonization.

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Black Lives Matter in Europe: De-Colonization and the Museum