Scholars call for Berlin centre on colonial-era heritage
Title: Scholars call for Berlin centre on colonial-era heritage
Author: Catherine Hickley
Media Outlet: The Art Newspaper
Publish Date: December 14, 2018
“More than 80 scholars in the fields of art history, ethnology and history called on the German government to found a central institute in Berlin to coordinate research, museum work and policy in addressing colonial history and handling colonial-era heritage in public collections.”
(…) “But this debate should not be limited to demands for restitution or reparations,” the scholars wrote. “We should seize the opportunity the discussion over these objects offers to rescue from oblivion a centuries-old common history, one that is in many ways brutal and violent, and to take responsibility for this entangled history in the present and future…”