A piece in the NYT looks at storage conditions at Humboldt Forum in Berlin, and asks if long argued claims about African artifacts being safer in European collections really holds water. “They complain that they do not have enough money to do research on these objects to take proper care of them,” said Tahir Della, a postcolonial activist based in Berlin, “but they had enough money to build a castle in the middle of Berlin.”

Read more at NYT

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