Restitution takes time and represents a major opportunity, particularly for museums. It can play a central role in relations with African partners, says Samuel Bachmann, curator of the African collections at the Bern Historical Museum. This content was published on May 15, 2026 - 09:00 During the colonisation of Africa, hundreds of thousands of everyday objects, works of art and documents, as well as minerals and rocks, plants and other organisms, but also animal skins, skeletons and human remains, were appropriated and transferred to Europe. Often justified on the grounds of scientific necessity, they were subsequently numbered and catalogued as...
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