A cartoon about the move to repatriate items from museum collections.
Cartoon about the growing demands for museums to reassess their collections in the light of issues around decolonisation, racism and other social justice tenets.
The cartoon specifically highlights the concept of guilt as directed towards museums and other cultural institutions in the West due to the perceived unique nature of the West’s history of imperialism and colonisation.
Here in the Uk the phenomenon can be observed inn the debates concerning the Elgin Marbles and Benin Bronzes in the British Museum and in the overall philosophy of the curators of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.
Drawn: 4th December 2022
Cartoon reference number: a936
