the case of @tamaralanier vs @peabodymuseum is a landmark moment for museum ethics

here is the submission my colleague @nickmirzoeff and I have written in support of Tamara’s case against Harvard—to see these images of her ancestors returned to her

>> ma-appellatecourts.org/pdf/SJC-13138/…
here is some background to the case theguardian.com/education/2019…
here is @thecrimson’s report on the verdict last March thecrimson.com/article/2021/3…
the case returns to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court two weeks from now

more details in this informative thread from Harvard’s @houstoninst (which has come out in support of the Lanier case) 👇👇

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20 Oct
✨ the paperback edition of #BrutishMuseums is officially published today, with a new preface and an updated list of museums holding Benin Bronzes! ✨
there are quite a few made-up words and concepts in the book, so to mark the day here are seven of them in a thread 👇
1/ Chronopolitics
the use of time as a mode of colonial domination, including the weaponisation of the discipline of Archaeology #BrutishMuseums
2/ Necrography
An account of death and loss. A death-history. An anti-biography. When applied to material culture, an alternative to the tired idiom 'the social life of things' or 'the cultural biography of objects' #BrutishMuseums
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5 Mar
@MCHammer a short thread of the five known Benin ivory hip-ornament masks—small portraits of Idia, first Iyoba (Queen Mother) of the 16th-century Benin Kingdom 👇
@MCHammer 1/ This ivory Idia mask is in the British Museum. It was looted by Sir Ralph Moor in the sacking of Benin City, and later bought by the @britishmuseum from anthropologist Charles Seligman #BrutishMuseums
@MCHammer @britishmuseum 2/ This is the ivory Idia hip-ornament mask, also looted in 1897, that is currently in the @LindenMuseum in Stuttgart, Germany (but was formerly in the @Pitt_Rivers second collection)
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3 Mar
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3 Mar
“the destruction of the Kingdom of Benin was in retaliation for colonial insurrection” is not even the silliest claim in today’s FT review
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26 Feb
can someone close to @TristramHuntVA please persuade him that this is NOT the moment to resurrect Hugh Trevor-Roper's claim that there is no history in Africa?

even the British Museum lumps Africa and Asia with the Americas!

This proposed scheme is Trumpian in its world-view
the ideology that claims the global south exists outside history has a history.

the V&A scheme is almost precisely that adopted when Oxford divided collections between the multi-department @AshmoleanMuseum and the @Pitt_Rivers in 1884 — the same year as the Berlin Congress.
Read 5 tweets
26 Feb
this opportunistic restructuring at the @V_and_A is a disaster for all who love museums

the V&A was never a historical museum — it's a museum of design

imposing a "chonological" structure is an attack upon the very purpose and ethos of the institution

theartnewspaper.com/news/radical-r…
solidarity with all those affected by this restructuring and whose jobs are under threat @VandPcs
Given this scale of loss, why not just cancel the white elephant that is V&A East instead?
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