Professor: “How did England get such great and filled museums” England: “The secret ingredient is crime”

@James-ip8xs

4 жыл бұрын

Really annoys me how you spelt secret

@yaqub5447

4 жыл бұрын

James Sorry English isn’t my first language thanks for pointing it out

@James-ip8xs

4 жыл бұрын

@@yaqub5447 no worries, didn't mean to be rude

@asliissa7208

3 жыл бұрын

@Luís Filipe Andrade conquest is just a pretty word for going to foreign lands and stealing their wealth and natural resources.rape is just a pretty word for forcefully fucking a person 🤮

@submissiveproviderstboth9485

3 жыл бұрын

@@James-ip8xs and yet you were🤦🏽‍♀️

It depends. There are many museums in my country, and due to the fact that my country did not invade any other country in it's history, our collections are entirely from our own cultures. The problem lies when imperialistic countries keep artifacts that were stolen or trafficked. Mexico has been asking Austria to give back Moctezuma's headdress for years, and the argument is that Mexico cannot possibly care for the object like they can. Wrong and patronising.

@StevinSto

4 жыл бұрын

Imo in that situation Austria should give it to a Mexican museum, tell them how they've been keeping it preserved or just trust Mexico to be able to care for it's own property, for they currently do have museums and obviously know how to care for artifacts. Lol

@broomemike1

4 жыл бұрын

Are you trying to say that Mexico never invaded anyone? Wasn't it founded by invading Spanish armies? And before that, are you trying to say that the Aztecs were peace loving? I agree that the French don't have a claim on indigenous art, but I'm not sure that the "powers that be" in Mexico actually represent the indigenous people either... After all, Mexico was founded by the very people that tried to wipe out those first Americans' way of life. Lol, just like the USA:) If course, if there is a specific Aztec run museum that you're talking about, I take all of this back:)

@broomemike1

4 жыл бұрын

@Abidjanaise So the LAND is the rightful owner? I don't think I was clear about my point: I'm pretty sure it would be going to a group of humans. And would it actually be the Aztecs? Or the Europeans who stayed in Mexico? It's not like Mexico gave back all the Aztec land, or that the Aztecs are have sovereign nation anywhere. The people in power in Mexico generally are not their descendents. Again, wouldn't we just be returning the artifacts to thieves who now call themselves Mexican? If someone invades my house and kicks me out of it, I don't think he deserves to keep my stuff, too! Just because he now has my address doesn't mean he is entitled to my TV.

@StevinSto

4 жыл бұрын

@Abidjanaise I agree it should be given to a Mexican museum to care for being it is important to them as a sacred piece of their history. But if the culture has no desire for the return of said artifact i believe it should stay in museum to promote education of that cultures history and customs to others looking to learn. Of course with the country or culture or origin being in involved with the latter. Also it's awful to generalize ALL Europeans (anyone for that matter) in you're comment as one thing or another. I wouldn't think youd like to generalized.

@broomemike1

4 жыл бұрын

@Abidjanaise No need to be hostile! There is no call for that. You are disagreeing with me, and I'm not telling you to shut up. I'm trying to understand your viewpoint, even though you are completely ignoring mine. I do agree that if all other things are equal, then a geographically convenient location for the Aztec descendents has merit. I'm not sure why you can't understand my point: My point was that "Mexico" was not the owner of the item. "Mexico" was another nation complicit in destroying the people to whom it belonged.

They literally cut up Baartman's corpse to investigate her as a missing link between animal and human......really think about that for a second. After an adult life stripped of all human dignity, she wasn't even be allowed to die with some. I know that history is full of this stuff and worse, but that one just really gets to me.

@galaxymew5138

2 жыл бұрын

Ugh, it's enough to make your stomach turn...

@WildsDreams45

2 жыл бұрын

🤷yolo?

@diegogonzales6447

2 жыл бұрын

Who owns a corpse? I think this is a question at the center of the entire debate over her body. I think Vsauce made a video about the subject.

@NoEnemiesRahim

2 жыл бұрын

I love when people act as if they arent animals “Devine purpose”

@colemarie9262

2 жыл бұрын

@@diegogonzales6447 In a legal sense it probably does center on that, but morally I think the center of the issue is this was someone stolen in life. Now that we as a society think that's unacceptable, it should be an easy fix to make. I'll have to check out the other video because idk how that could even be a debate in this day and age.

This video could be summarized in a line from Disney’s movie Atlantis the lost empire. When Milo protests how commander Rourke is willing to steal the Atlantian life force crystal, Rourke responds with something along the lines of “come on Milo, as an academic you should understand that if you returned every stolen artifact in a museum, you’d be left with an empty building”. I’m 22 now but that line stuck out to me as an 11 year old. Here’s the link to the clip: kzread.info/dash/bejne/h4RlmsyLXdGylaQ.html

@qwertyuiop-ni4dp

2 жыл бұрын

thought that said the Albanian life force crystal

@LoveReacts

2 жыл бұрын

Shout out to Tab Murphy, an absolute legend of a human being and (co?) writer of Atlantis.

@sadem1045

2 жыл бұрын

Thankfully, that's not the case with most museums

@caspita18

2 жыл бұрын

Right on point with your example

@animeevergreenathena

2 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure that in this day and age, it's possible to recreate models of most stolen artifacts and return those original stolen artifacts to their rightful owners without having to sacrifice the quality of the exhibits as long as the correct context is given. As such, nobody would necessarily have to be left with an "empty building" even today for the sake of making humanity right as long as an effort is made to ensure that both parties get what they want to a reasonable extent.

I think about how the parthanon museum in Athens has big empty displays with signs saying something along the lines of "This is where we would display the sculptures from the parthanon if the British museum would give them back to us." And I think that example really drives home some of the unethical nature of museums, because the British museum can't even argue that they are preserving the artifacts better when the Greeks have a spot in their own museum to put them.

@haruyanto8085

4 жыл бұрын

No that doesn't count, it isn't African

@ByddinRhyddidCymru

4 жыл бұрын

ilovebats10 The Greeks wouldn’t look after them properly, just look at their economy or plates on a dinner table, greeks break shit

@ArawnOfAnnwn

4 жыл бұрын

@Speaking Truth Really? Where's your evidence that's the case? Not some random anecdote btw, but actual numbers showing all or even most of the stuff they've returned has been "destroyed, lost or sold off".

@konstantineskomments

4 жыл бұрын

@@ByddinRhyddidCymru the dish breaking thing is only meant for certain situations. We dont break our dinner plates. They are specific plates for breaking.

@konstantineskomments

4 жыл бұрын

@@spuilloh2637 the greek artifacts were stolen from them by the turkish and the British bought it from them.

Native Americans have been asking for spiritual and ancestral artifacts back since Europeans arrived.

@TheAgent0060

3 жыл бұрын

And that's bullshit. They need to have their ancestral items back.

@rubendelacruz7395

3 жыл бұрын

Okay cool, and?

@smilealwaysnatasha3423

3 жыл бұрын

Ruben De la Cruz they deserve to have their property return to them.

@lordgeneralmilitantdeezy7550

3 жыл бұрын

Ruben De la Cruz Imagine if some shit heads set up shops in your house steal artifacts with significants to you and put them on display for tourists to gawk at

@tjpprojects7192

3 жыл бұрын

And Christians have been trying to get Constantinople back from Muslims, but that's not going to happen.

I’m Nigerian and went to a museum to other day, like 50% of the artefacts were “acquired” by the British empire from my country

@bitcoinzoomer9994

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao stay mad

@VincentGonzalezVeg

2 жыл бұрын

@@bitcoinzoomer9994 with a solar flare Bitcoin is worthless

@wizzolo

2 жыл бұрын

@@VincentGonzalezVeg and bank accounts too, so that is kinda moot.

@STartist.

2 жыл бұрын

@@bitcoinzoomer9994 cringe

@leticia-zo8pd

2 жыл бұрын

@@bitcoinzoomer9994 shut up beans on toast

I’ve recently been to a museum in Cambridge and found their solution very clever - they returned the original items that had been unethically taken from the Sami people and then paid Sami artists to recreate those items for the museum. I thought that was a great approach because it actively supports the culture and its peoples, and at the same time still allows people who cannot travel to Norway to still learn about that culture. However, the downside of course is that museums unfortunately don’t have much money, so they probably cannot afford to do that for all their artefacts.

I love how every time Killmonger made a good point, they had him murder someone to remind you he was the bad guy.

@CindySeminario

4 жыл бұрын

Wesley Morgan he had some good and interesting ideas, but his methods were awful. That’s what makes him an interesting villain.

@Weareifinity

4 жыл бұрын

He was a good guy I wanted him to spread the war.... I wanted to see the reactions

@broomemike1

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, his character didn't make much sense. I think the writers were wanting to make some ethical points about this world and for some crazy reason had this villian be the spokesman.

@Dell-ol6hb

4 жыл бұрын

Wesley Morgan Some of his points were good points it’s just that his plans to enact his ideals were really stupid.

@dayglowjoe

4 жыл бұрын

questionable politics in that movie, having the guy who's based on and inspired by the actual black panthers be a crazed terrorist while the hero's arc is literally to collaborate with the CIA... big side-eye

I'm from South Africa, the fact that Saartjie's body was kept in a museum kinda breaks my heart. I'm so glad she got burried here.

@bigbluefrog

2 жыл бұрын

Me too! It is horrifying what she endured during her lifetime. She at least deserved to be brought home; I'm glad she is home now.

@nkosibless2253

2 жыл бұрын

En raai wie het dit veroorsaak

@AA-vr8ve

2 жыл бұрын

Im american and have no idea who you're talking about but that That sounds horrible ;-;

@AA-vr8ve

2 жыл бұрын

I just got to the part explaining it, what the actual frick

@Catlily5

2 жыл бұрын

Was she from a tribe?

South African here , Nelson Mandela asked for Sarah remains and she was brought to her native land in the Eastern Cape and was buried by her descendants

Easy answer Just make replicas and display those That's how countries like ours handle artifacts

@bitcoinzoomer9994

2 жыл бұрын

Countries that aren't sigma enough to conquer

@ilikestuff9250

2 жыл бұрын

@@bitcoinzoomer9994 Our Sigma Male Grindset is to not rob other nations blind just to keep our struggling economy upright that only happens to be in that state due to a sigma male grindset.

@wtf1a1a

2 жыл бұрын

@@ilikestuff9250 what county would this be? cause i would be shocked to find a county that didnt have a shady history

@DeadEndFrog

2 жыл бұрын

@@wtf1a1a this

@shaneluthy3041

2 жыл бұрын

@@wtf1a1a also curious

Let's just call those colonial museums "loot galleries".

@haruyanto8085

4 жыл бұрын

They are loots

@jons9239

3 жыл бұрын

Haha thats so true. Never thought of it like that.

@351528

3 жыл бұрын

Lol! Brilliant!😄

@angiecud9744

3 жыл бұрын

AMEN!

@stevenhunter3212

3 жыл бұрын

Word.

I'm an art historian. My personal view as that each item (or sometimes, collections of items that go together) should be evaluated on a case per case basis. Human remains and sacred objects should be given highest priority. Sometimes, there is no community left to return objects to, sometimes there is. Often, objects are displayed with no context and stripped of any meaning. So many things in museums were obtained through looting or other shady means, it's hard to even estimate their numbers. But it's only ethical to try and correct at least some of these wrongs. Some people worry that our museums will empty out, and there will be nothing left, but that clearly won't be the case. If the past was a mad obsession with collecting at any cost, the future can be rectifying mistakes, ethical means of displaying what we have, returning things that make sense to return, and building relationships with the cultures that provided those objects.

@analyticalmindset

3 жыл бұрын

Well said

@shariwelch8760

3 жыл бұрын

@ Any stolen objects are morally wrong, especially when it means an entire culture was destroyed. I don't know where you're trying to go with this fantasy scenario. History happened the way it happened. I don't deal in impossibilities.

3 жыл бұрын

@@shariwelch8760You feel like that just because you are ignorant.

@shariwelch8760

3 жыл бұрын

@ I'm ignorant? That's a laugh. "My opinion" that objects should be evaluated on a case by case basis is already being implemented by museums, so I don't know why you think it wouldn't be valid. You have some airy-fairy ideas about how the world runs. Go talk to some people from these cultures that you are fantasizing about, and ask them what they think about your ideas of their cultural objects and how they should be treated and where they belong. Until then, you're just an asshole rando on the internet with no valid opinion

@shariwelch8760

3 жыл бұрын

@ Item are evaluated by museum curators and people from the area the artifacts came from, or descendants of the people who made the artifacts. That's why it has to be case-by-case. Sometimes there are descendants, sometimes there aren't. Sometimes we listen to people coming from that country if there are no cultural descendants. And they try to come together to decide the most ethical solution to handling stolen property.

I read the title as "The problem with Muslims" and had to double take, that would have been a very different video

@I_am_Bef

2 жыл бұрын

Im glad im not the only one 🤣

@Liiiiiiiiiii306

2 жыл бұрын

lol as a muslim this made me laughed

@blueluma6187

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the title of a PragerU video

@airbornewarningandcontrols396

2 жыл бұрын

@@blueluma6187 probably is one

@mavisseafoam

2 жыл бұрын

I THOUGHT THE EXACT SAME OMG lmaooo

Imagine getting your car jacked at gun-point and then when you go to the police they tell you that it was your responsability to protect yourself better 😂

@gabreshaa8234

2 жыл бұрын

LA in a nutshell

@abeliiibecerra5281

2 жыл бұрын

What are you talking about? Have you not heard of personal safety? Situational awareness? You better be careful who you try to jack in the US because you might get shot. That goes for the hood and the suburbs.

@valemadre69

2 жыл бұрын

@@abeliiibecerra5281 bruh it's clearly an allegory for the way people have been treated after asking for the return of their rightful artifacts wtf are you on about

@CraftyVegan

2 жыл бұрын

As though cops don't already do this... for nearly every crime committed against someone who isn't a white male... Despite being white, when I was assaulted I was told "Next time be more careful"

This is exactly the type of conversation people who like museums need to be having. Past mistakes need to be openly acknowledged, the public needs to be educated, and better practice/updated procedures need to be put in place. There’s absolutely a need for museums, but problematic acquisition practices of the past need to be left there...in the past.

@haruyanto8085

4 жыл бұрын

These were usually acquired during war times, unless they wanna go to war for these items back it's not worth it

@maibimbum

4 жыл бұрын

Hara Yanto Not necessarily. Illegal excavation and looting have been and still are ongoing problems. Many collectors, including museums, are guilty of knowingly acquiring looted or illegally exported artifacts. Aside from times of war, as you mentioned, there is still the issue of colonization and best way to address this issue going forward, within the context of this conversation of course.

@kaptenlemper

3 жыл бұрын

@ what I'm getting from your rant is that humans have been doing terrible things since the dawn of time and therefore there is no need for current generations to strive to be better than their predecessors and rectify the wrongs said predecessors inflicted on other peoples.

@kaptenlemper

3 жыл бұрын

@ oh, just another pseudo-intellectual wanking on KZread, then. Carry on.

@kudasaixsomnum51

2 жыл бұрын

After here in switzerland we have the ethnographic museum where pieces from the world has been sent , those pieces are gifts from governments or stuff (like we have a traditional hawaiian tribe feather cape that has been donated by an hawaian or multiple traditional buddhist pieces thatbhas been donated by mongolian government) i think it should all go from the donation of the will of the people who owns the pieces

LOVE IT! I worked in museums for many years and minored in art history during college, so this conversation came up numerous times. Personally, I'm not opposed to having accurate replicas in museums and repatriating the originals to the places of origin, as long as they are clearly indicated as replicas.

@Darknexea

4 жыл бұрын

As a museum specialist, I totally agree. Museums in North America are more focused on the narrative than the artifacts but in Europe, it's still not the case. Just looking at the British Museum or the Louvre, they still rely on the aesthetic of the artifacts rather than the interpretation.

@suzimonkey345

4 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know how many countries do NOT charge to visit museums? I confess that I’ve only visited a few “Natural History” type museums & only in a handful of different countries. If memory serves, England is the only place that entrance was free (& only in some museums/galleries)

@alexn.2901

4 жыл бұрын

What a nice idea.

@sellmoon

4 жыл бұрын

exactly! I was thinking about replicas too, and with the new 3d printing technology it would be even easier to make extremely accurate replicas and return the originals to the rightful owners. this would also be great for the pieces themselves (because they would be safe from light and air exposure) and to some iconic pieces, museums could colab and do a "world tour", that would make them even more special

@shariwelch8760

4 жыл бұрын

That's what I think should be done with the Elgin Marbles specifically, but many other things could also be replicated. These days, they could make a replica that looks so authentic, you wouldn't know to look at it. But I think the British Museum is too greedy about it, the Marbles bring in a lot of tourists. Even without an entry fee, tourists always spend money. They've also spent a lot of money preserving them, promoting them, insuring them, etc. I think museum directors forget that we are just passing through the lives of these great objects. We only take care of them briefly. Any museum is only a passing thing to the Elgin marbles, they will likely remain until the end of human life. So the Museum is being too precious about it. The point is to learn and gain wisdom from things like the Marbles, but the Museum is so mightily worried about having the originals. The money is more important than the ethics of it, as usual.

The fact that Britain has the Greek artifacts in the first place is a problem. The British have done nothing but appropriate Ancient Greece and Egypt. Britain historically had nothing to do with Greece, it’s not "oh we’re descended from western culture and we’re European" they have nothing to do with us. I’d rather have Turkey hold our artifacts seeing as Greek culture was historically just as much in Asia Minor as mainland Greece. And many modern turks are still descended from Greeks.

@billcipherproductions1789

2 жыл бұрын

The UK does keep them safe though. A lot of the nations that the UK lotted from were and are in turmoil so, yeah.

@giannism6875

2 жыл бұрын

@@billcipherproductions1789 Boy what are you talking about? We are not in turmoil, we literally have empty spaces in our museums, Egypt has just built one of the biggest museums in the world too. Britain just loves to steal things from other countries, why don’t you guys celebrate your own history and culture and stop stealing others? Significant artifacts belong in their homeland. End of conversation

@WCBProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr. And tfw on our 200th year freedom anniversary Britain was like "congrats, btw we're never giving your shit back"

@who2807

2 жыл бұрын

Venice did it better, cope and seethe

@yousoundweird4771

2 жыл бұрын

It is very sad that if you visit the Akropolis - Original parts of pillars and statues are in England - this shit is messy af

I think it’d be a good idea if museums showed fakes of the pieces if possible, still shows the items and lets people learn but the museum’s just don’t keep the original

@danielburgess7101

2 жыл бұрын

They do this to some extent. Only with things too large to carry. Trajan’s Column for example.

What? No mention of Indiana Jones breaking into a temple to steal an idol and take to a museum?

@iiiiitsmagreta1240

4 жыл бұрын

...the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark suddenly got really, _really_ shady.

@haruyanto8085

4 жыл бұрын

He's white why would they mention him, plus Indiana Jones didn't question it like Killmonger, also Tomb Raider if we're at it

@Justin-xd7zj

4 жыл бұрын

Indiana Jones is just the middle man it’s his employers who are shady

@bigbro6446

4 жыл бұрын

I guess the redeeming part of Indiana was his reward was the education such artefacts offered instead of a large chunk of money, we see that many of his companions and workers who valued the money more than the education didn’t have a good outcome on their life.

@henrikfitch4017

3 жыл бұрын

@@haruyanto8085 Here's the difference. One of those people wants to take over the world for their race. And the other 2 uncover ancient artefacts from long dead civilisations.

I never did consider the ethics of musuems until that scene in Black Panther. Huh. Thank you for the info!

@1979hellcat

4 жыл бұрын

Honey Queen ikr. Makes u question a lot of things now...

@happyfacefries

4 жыл бұрын

Same actually!

@charlesspeaksthetruth4334

4 жыл бұрын

Just another example out of many, how powerful and important *Black Panther* is. When a movie starts to effect our reality/real life. It's only more proof, why that movie is so *special.* Wakanda Forever.

@omarclarke55

3 жыл бұрын

WAKANDA FOREVER

@s-wo8781

3 жыл бұрын

I did once I learned about Sarah Baartman. Literally had human remains on display because they were in awe of a black woman's curves. She was even paraded around like a circus freak before she died.

This is such an interesting video! I'm from Mexico and some people debate over the fact that one of Moctezuma's headdresses (Moctezuma was an Aztec emperor) is currently on display on Vienna, many arguing that it should be returned to Mexico. My opinion is that it shouldn't be returned, firstly as how many people have pointed out how fragile it is, and shipping it from Austria to Mexico would severely damage it. Secondly, the fact that the headdress is in Austria in the first place is because it was a personal gift from the Aztec emperor to the Spanish king, who lived in the Holy Roman Empire, thus why it is in Vienna. Lastly, it if were to be returned to Mexico, it shouldn't be given to the Mexican government, but to the current descendants of those communities. Giving it to a Mexican museum would be counterintuitive, as Mexican museums are mostly just as colonial entities as those elsewhere (Mexican museums currently exhibit artifacts from other countries like Guatemala, which were obtained by just as colonial means)

@Pssybart

2 жыл бұрын

It's often complicated. The Mona Lisa became the most famous painting in the world, in part because it was stolen at the beginning of the 20th century by an Italian patriot who believed the painting should rightfully belong in an Italian museum. It gave the painting an incredible amount of publicity. Eventually the guy was caught and the painting was returned to the Louvre. The reason the Mona Lisa is in France in the first place is because Leonardo Da Vinci took the painting with him to France and died there. It was later sold to King Francis I. So can you really say that it is an Italian painting when Leonardo kept and finished it in France?

As commander Rourke says in Atlantis "if you gave back every stolen artifact from a museum, you'd be left with an empty building"

@alisaurus4224

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent quote from an underrated movie. FYI “stolen” means “acquired by theft” whereas “stollen” is a delicious German bread 😊

@JP-br4mx

2 жыл бұрын

You’re so annoying and I love you

@roslynsamuria7309

2 жыл бұрын

exactly you can’t fill your house with things that don’t belong to you

_Storm the British Museum, they can’t colonise all of us_

@StinkyGoblin

4 жыл бұрын

*looks at history* Actually I think youll find we can

@crewmatewillthrowthesehand7600

4 жыл бұрын

@@StinkyGoblin rise of nationalism and world war 2: Im about to end your whole career

@StinkyGoblin

4 жыл бұрын

@@crewmatewillthrowthesehand7600 nani!

@EZMETAL

3 жыл бұрын

@@StinkyGoblin ok, plant and grown your own food (do not import) manufacture your own clouths (not vietnam or china), manufacture everything and stop to outsource it, stop eating beans, corn, potato, tomato all from America Continent - Stop to eat garlic, onion, spring onions, and all food from abroad... and lets. Stop to outsource and just eat and drink native food. Like... hum...carrots? What you saying is rude and based in imperialism history that does not fit now a days! unification, mix and respect, we are all the same boring humans!

@StinkyGoblin

3 жыл бұрын

Élcio Cruz do you have a flag?

0:02 “If your a big old history nerd like me?” Answer: Yes

@alvallac2171

3 жыл бұрын

*you're (contraction of "YOU aRE") "Your" is for possession.

@Renigade16

3 жыл бұрын

@@alvallac2171 It's people like you that push others into being serial killers.

Why does Egypt have the pyramids today? Cuz the British couldn't carry them away 🤯

@AA-vr8ve

2 жыл бұрын

Lul

@runningchild8052

2 жыл бұрын

Legit, at this point i think that they would take the pyramids if they could, the same way France has Egypt's obelisk(i know they were given to france but i think you understand where im coming from, they are heavy and huge).

@itchyro_

2 жыл бұрын

Because they couldn’t carry them away, the brits decided to colonize Egypt instead 😎

@runningchild8052

2 жыл бұрын

@@itchyro_ *exactly*

@EvonixTheGreatest

2 жыл бұрын

Even then the outer layers and capstones have been taken, though to be fair that wasn't to do with the British, apparently after being cracked after an earthquake they were taken to build mosques and fortresses or something like that

As a museum and History lover, I never really thought about the ethics of museums and artifacts being in their country of origin. Mostly because I had a mindset of "as long as the history is preserved all is well" but after I dug more into the topic I now realize how important it is for these artifacts to stay by their rightfull owners (countried of origin), they have cultural importance to the people, that is not something that should be robbed.

the moment when you go to the British Museum and see huge China plates broken into pieces for transportation. people died making those plates. and the oldest chinese painting damaged beyond repair because the brits didn't know how to preserve Chinese paper. they only display it two months out of twelve I believe. and there I was in a foreign country checking the calendar to see if I can glimpse at a piece of my own culture. while also learning that some British young don't even know about the opium wars.

@poliestotico

3 жыл бұрын

I was hoping to watch a video about this, artifacts taken from cultures and political entities that have a continuty today like china korea or japan

@user-tn7kl3sq2r

3 жыл бұрын

they have walls of holy sites in south asia i repeat WALLS

@eternallylearning2811

3 жыл бұрын

Thats probably cause of the school system being as bad everywhere I guess I don't know what that is either but I live in Australia so I might not even know it even if I did get taught stuff more.

@luzylu100

3 жыл бұрын

Wow this is horrible!!!

@thebravegallade731

3 жыл бұрын

@@poliestotico japan has its own share of loot as a culture of piracy, later inperialist, country. Korea? Our museums are filled with only our stuff.

People want to say colonialism was long time ago when it is not the case. If we look at them by generations rather than years, history is pretty recent. For instance, my grandparents were born under colonialism and most of them are still alive. When I saw a French documentary about human zoos, I couldn't help but wonder. Is one of my ancestor's remains locked in a closet of an European museum ? What I think about this is that they definitely should get repatriated. When 90% of African cultural heritage is not in Africa, there's a huge problem.

@tav7312

4 жыл бұрын

Personally in my opinion artifacts should be kept in a country that will take care of that artifact and make sure its safe while also making donation to the country that artifact is from. And alot of countries in africa are very corrupt and have civil wars so many artifacts would not be safe.

@Omnimon101

4 жыл бұрын

My father was born in the final years of colonialism. it is so recent.

@Omnimon101

4 жыл бұрын

@Valerie Faye. I wholeheartedly disagree. It is not the responsibility of the countries that stole the artifacts to decide how they should be cared for. The belief that the direct descendants of the people who created the artifacts will not care for them is patronizing. People should give back what was stolen/"unethically acquired"

@ByddinRhyddidCymru

4 жыл бұрын

Alex N. Even if it is your ancestor, it’s not you, so don’t worry about it

@MrsNiaboo2000

3 жыл бұрын

@@tav7312 Ma'am, the thief should not have a say on the stolen goods. Simply put.

I'm much more of the third camp. I have studied archeology and anthropology, and firmly believe we should learn all we can from not just ancient cultures, but still extant cultures, and help them preserve thier cultures. Maybe create duplicates of the items, and then send the original back, while maybe helping the original culture set up thier own museums, that way everyone benefits. There could be the added benefit that people can expand their cultural knowledge, and hopefully, one day, become more accepting of other cultures instead of wanting to destroy/change them

"Are museums ethical?" Certainly not most European museums

@GeeFreshman

2 жыл бұрын

Then again we can look into other museums in non European countries and see that they’ve taken things from places such as europe

@anggasatya69

2 жыл бұрын

@@GeeFreshman more like, "Things that left by European when they finally done colonialized us"

@vanessa-iv8qz

2 жыл бұрын

As soon as I saw the title I thought of the Benin bronzes. Like almost instantly

@savagetv6460

2 жыл бұрын

Says the literal communist lol

@declanbaglin8727

2 жыл бұрын

@@savagetv6460 what the fucking hell does communism have to do with anything that we’re talking about

TLDR: Museums that respect the cultures' wishes and the artifacts, yes The British Museum, no

@billcipherproductions1789

2 жыл бұрын

The UK does keep them safe.

@ainakbasu8398

2 жыл бұрын

@@billcipherproductions1789 but it's still unethical

@billcipherproductions1789

2 жыл бұрын

@@ainakbasu8398 But if it gets returned to their respective home countries, they will destroy it.

@ainakbasu8398

2 жыл бұрын

@@billcipherproductions1789 Not if its heavily guarded

@billcipherproductions1789

2 жыл бұрын

@@ainakbasu8398 And do you think they'll do that?

Adding a controversy. The Jikji is the first book printed in metal movable type, which beats out Gutenberg. It was wrongfully taken by the French National Library. Currently Korea is arguing it should be rightfully returned--it is a key cultural item of Korea and significant to the history. (Especially since Korea has the museum facilities to house it). The French have (in my view wrongfully), claimed it is a "worldwide treasure that belongs to no one." in order to keep it within France. While other texts have been repatriated, Jikji has not, mostly due to protests from the French National Library's librarians.

@LowestofheDead

4 жыл бұрын

France has violent protests with property-damage all the time, sounds like such an unstable country can't look after priceless artifacts..

@arianikolleortemoreno5225

3 жыл бұрын

"Belongs to no one" proceeds to keep it 🤦‍♀️

@poliestotico

3 жыл бұрын

WaveHello HAHAHAHAHAHHA there is gonna be a Strike against this comment hahhaahaha

@JJ-fq4nl

3 жыл бұрын

Doesn’t surprise me. They still have sanctions on Haiti & charge their former African colonies for colonization. Also forcing (with threat of recolonization) those “independent “ African countries to keep their currency in the Bank of France.

@suhocidal

3 жыл бұрын

BRING 직지 BACK

I think this is why I like the natural history museums where I can learn about dinosaurs and their bones…

Are Museums ethical? Yes. Stealing, however, is not.

@natelogos7662

2 жыл бұрын

Stealing today is not. But is it still stealing if it was stolen centuries ago and neither the thief nor the victim are still alive? I think not. I think by that point the item belongs to all of humanity.

@phantomwarlock5002

2 жыл бұрын

@@natelogos7662 if the item belongs to all of humanity, why are museums so reluctant to give the artifact's back to the host country, why keep it for themself?

@natelogos7662

2 жыл бұрын

@@phantomwarlock5002 It depends on whether the host country can keep the artifact safe and provide access to researchers. If a country regularly has bombings the artifact might not be safe there. And if political situations keep researchers out of the country then the artifact shouldn't be there.

@phantomwarlock5002

2 жыл бұрын

@@natelogos7662 then let's take a country that hasn't been in war for quite some time, India. Artifacts would be kept safely there, what's your counter to that?

@natelogos7662

2 жыл бұрын

@@phantomwarlock5002 I don't have a counter to that. I have no objection to returning objects to nations that can keep them safe and keep them accessible for academic research.

I literally can’t be the only person who immediately thought of just making replicas and then just giving the originals back. I seriously doubt people will care too much that those particular pieces aren’t the real ones. And maybe look to purchase the pieces from their areas of origin with large donations. I’m sure some of the poorer nations would rather get large sums of money to build important infrastructures (like hospitals and ways of obtaining clean drinking water) than have a single object returned. But of course that would have to be their choice to sell them.

@holoGEI

4 жыл бұрын

The Victoria and Albert museum in London has cast replicas for much of its displays. It's collection also contains a large assortment of interesting artifacts from the actual country its located in, which in my opinion makes it better than most the cosmopolitan art history museums around the western world.

@UndeadCrabstick

4 жыл бұрын

some of the Latvian museums display reconstructions of the original items found in the ancient burial sites. It's a good way to show the visitors how their ancestors lived because they get to see something as it was when it was still new and in use. Seeing rusty, warped, and broken blades is not nearly as exciting as seeing the sword the way it might have been when the warrior was still alive.

@mello4166

4 жыл бұрын

I was able to see the recreation of King Tut's tomb; the level of detail and precision was insane, I still found myself marveling over everything.

@cairawilliams93

4 жыл бұрын

Museums bring in lots of currency and capitalism for these countries and not as many ppl will want to see the replica, they would plan trips to the other locations to see the real... this could transfer forms of wealth to many of these poorer countries and nations if they choose to display the items themselves.

@gafanhotogamer5993

4 жыл бұрын

@@cairawilliams93 You're wrong, Caira. Very few people who travel, travel exclusively for museums, and people that do travel for these reasons, are either academics, or they already travel to historical sites.

Baartman’s story is so nightmarish that it’s almost unreal. May she R.I.P.

This is a great conversation starter, I love museums, but agree about the ethical dilemma that exists with the curation of artifacts

While I don't agree with the way every item was obtained by museums however the vast majority of people don't care nor are qualified to properly care for these priceless pieces of history

@kimwilliams5165

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine someone breaking into your home and then arguing, but I'm going to take better care of it. Theft isn't debatable on the grounds of what or how objects are cared for by the rightful owner.

@kimwilliams5165

2 жыл бұрын

@@Cha4k Actually, it's called theft if someone removes something from your front yard. It is legal to remove something from a trash container someone has put on the curb only. The equivalent of what you're claiming would be if a country shipped their antiques to you and said here is our trash, do with it as you like. Since that's not what happened, we can reason free from hypocrisy that it's theft.

You are an amazing speaker. I love how you are able to just flow so easily in relating the subject matter. Thank you

@jbielic4067

4 жыл бұрын

And presented difficult subject matter at that. Very well done.

@taotaostrong

4 жыл бұрын

Yes! I always enjoy her presentations.

I have a love-hate relationship with museums as an indigenous man. The knowledge held within is wonderful and allowed me to be introduced to many of the cultural, spiritual and daily practices of my ancestors when I didn't have access to elders to teach me. For that I love them and am grateful. . However, my people are still alive and we are trying to revive many of our traditional cultural practices. Museums tend to characterize indigenous peoples from a colonial viewpoint, and often don't acknowledge that we still exist, instead referring to our cultures in the past tense, furthering the government's goal of cultural genocide. We are NOT dead. . When requesting that objects be returned, the so-called "stewards" of these objects, typically white academics with no personal ties to these cultures, believe we cannot adequately care for our sacred objects. Even while they take them apart, study them and put them crudely back together. Some indigenous groups still in negotiations with the Smithsonian today have only been allowed to "rent" their ancestors belongings and even remains for short periods. . We hope that one day we can house our own cultural relics in permanent, living examples of our peoples and our histories. . Thank you for this wonderfully informative video. Wela'lin.

@zamorapakalolo1389

Жыл бұрын

The reason why they speak of indigenous people in past tense is because they were successful in converting most to Christianity; those that opposed were killed off, those left were swept under the rug. They've conquered and your people are no longer a threat to them.

@janmitchell3976

Жыл бұрын

we arnt even allowed to take pictures of the collection at the vatican, and the official story is it was giffted. disgusting

@trentedan

Жыл бұрын

@@zamorapakalolo1389 I have some issues with the use of the word "conquered." It implies, even if only slightly, that there was a battle of equal sides. There was not. There were many strategies of genocide, including but not limited to starvation, theft of children, mass murder, relocation, religious and spiritual persecution, and biological warfare, among many others. Though we've endured. And I would say we are becoming more and more a threat to them with every passing day... ;)

@trentedan

Жыл бұрын

@@janmitchell3976 Disgusting and heartbreaking, disguising theft as stewardship and "care," though they did it with our children too so I can't say I'm surprised they did it to what they consider to be mere 'objects'. And speaking of children, so much of what was lost from many communities and many nations lies sleeping in those "artifacts" (I'd much rather call them relatives)... If we did have them back, their value as teachers to our children would be immeasurable.

China asked the Britain to give the stolen Chinese artifacts back. The Britain: if we do, there would be no artifacts in our museum. Lol isn’t that the point?

Most of my country relics acquired by Netherlands during colonial era and kept in their museum. I'm conflicted as I have to accept the fact that the Dutch preserve it greatly for us to study centuries later. But those are the pride of my country.

@eminent609

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you know they destroyed and burned the original owners in order to have them?? So they would still be there anyway in those places if that didn't happened. Nothing justifies this criminality

Hey, I work in a museum! And I agree with this video 100%. I'd also like to add (for those who don't spend much time in the museum world) that there are a lot of different kinds of museums out there. I think a lot of people have that stereotypical image of museums stuck in their heads- a huge, fancy, 100+ year old building filled with everything from dinosaurs to mummies. But most of us aren't like that. The museum I work for is a small, local museum focused on agriculture. But still, just like every other museum, we need to focus on doing things ethically. The majority of our artifacts are farm equipment and household objects given to us by local families, very straightforward. We only have a few Native American artifacts and as far as I know they were all sourced ethically. Some years before I worked here, some human remains were given to the museum. The museum reported it to the tribe and gave her back to them. From there the tribe gave her a proper burial. I know that some people disagree with it, but it was the right thing to do.

@mirandaal4541

3 жыл бұрын

@ What a defense! I should not be accountable for the murder I committed because as a human being you have the same potential to commit murder like I did. That's a hypothetical situation in the case of the second person. We deal with what HAS happened - not what COULD happen.

@Guapo10292

3 жыл бұрын

Miranda Al u clearly didn’t even read her comment lol. All she said was she works at an agricultural museum and all they have is rusty farm equipment, and ur out here drawing allegories to murder. Ik u feel really empowered cuz u just watched an educational vid but chill out

@mercury6284

3 жыл бұрын

@@mirandaal4541 bruh did you even read the first sentence of her comment?

@mirandaal4541

3 жыл бұрын

@@mercury6284 The first sentence of _whose_ comment? Now that you’re accusing me of not reading „her“comment, lemme accuse you of not reading properly. 😊 If you look again, you’ll notice that my comment was in reply to @Cristian Proust. That’s not a „her“! _His_ comment - Cristian Proust‘s comment - which I had replied to, has since been removed. You owe me an apology.🤔

Moctezuma's penach has been the target of a lot of strife. It is displayed in Austria and Mexico wants it back.

3 жыл бұрын

True. I'm sure Mexicans would return Mozart' s piano if the Aztecs had conquered, enslaved and committed human sacrifices in Europe if the had gotten the technology (the same as they did to all tribes in the vast region of their empire in America. To bad when empires meet an even bigger empire. But the biggest one is the evil one, is it?, or is that a word that the last loser uses?)

@janethebluemouse

3 жыл бұрын

Cristian Proust In your wild scenario you are right. It would be problematic the other way around. In the end of the day it is not okay for countries to keep and hold artifacts that they stole from a culture they conquered and exploited. Especially when the people asked for the artifact to be returned and the country holding it says that the original creators "couldn't care for it". But here is where you are wrong: There is no such thing as a "sore looser". Colonialism was nasty and the effects are still being felt by the victims in it who had their land and culture taken away. And they should be compensated.

@newguy8288

3 жыл бұрын

I respectfully disagree. For one, the “couldn’t care for it” is mostly directed to the fact countries such as Mexico can’t even deal with their gangs using their own military force. For seconds, even before colonialism every country that demands this compensation has either done the same thing in the past close to the timeline of the artifact itself, such as Alexander the Great “stealing” a lot of Asian artifacts, or they’ve simply committed crimes in wars of the past against fellow sovereign countries. Finally, close to the first point, a lot of these countries are quite unstable with their own problems. Weather or not it was caused by colonialism the fact still stands that due to internal problems these countries could have their artifacts destroyed.

@graceortega2603

2 жыл бұрын

@@newguy8288 while yes, Mexico is unstable because of cartels, we still have museums with artifacts and the Aztec pyramids that are preserved. Cartels aren’t targeting museums, so it would be wrong of you to assume that we can’t take care of objects with cultural significance. Especially when they are being kept in a country where it has no significance to their culture

@drkatbun8566

2 жыл бұрын

@@newguy8288 a lot of colonizers got rich from stealing and selling stuff from people they murder or slaved, so yeah give it back

Baartman's story is so heartbreaking. Every time I hear anything about it, it feels like a gut punch. Thank you for this. I went to an exhibit of Gaugin's art and almost bumped into a NZ Maori carving that was most definitely looted. Having lived in NZ for many years, i recognized the carving as one of a family's ancestors. These pieces are NEVER given away. They're treasures and are believed to actually inhabit the souls of ancestors. The fact that Gaugin made off with it, took it to Tahiti, and that it's now traveling the world with an art exhibit makes me sick.

This is my first time watching a video on this channel but I love how the host recognizes both sides of the argument and adds a possible solution to both problems by offering a third option that pleases those on both sides of the argument

Imagine someone stealing something and then saying you should have protected it better. 🙃 ok but you still committed a crime.

@brandonmizon2887

3 жыл бұрын

war isnt a crime

@janethebluemouse

3 жыл бұрын

Brandon Mizon theft is. Besides most of the artifacts were stolen due to colonialism. Yes, there were wars. Most were brought by the colonizers as a way to take land, resources etc. It is good European countries today has moved past this and acknowledged that it was wrong. But now they have to make up for the damages they have caused. And judging by this, they haven't made it there yet.

@brandonmizon2887

3 жыл бұрын

@@janethebluemouse European countries aren't the only countries that colonised or had empires. we were just better at it than anybody else

@Erine120

3 жыл бұрын

Brandon Mizon so if someone stole the Declaration of Independence in a war then refused to give it back you’d just let it go cause they stole it fair and square? Somehow I doubt it Hypocrite

@shriyanv4407

3 жыл бұрын

It's usually a part of human history itself as a whole so I don't see a problem

There is also the fact that when the US waged wars of aggression in the Middle East, they stole many priceless artifacts, most notably from Iraq. Egypt to this day is demanding Germany return the Bust of Nefertiti. Its quite simple, really. Museums have no right to profit off of cultural artifacts that were obtained unethically. We live in the digital age. You can view pictures online. You can make replicas.

@natelogos7662

2 жыл бұрын

But there is constant war in the Middle East. Returning artifacts there endangers them.

@z1no3n

2 жыл бұрын

@@natelogos7662 😐

@strangecoasteroutdoors799

2 жыл бұрын

Its better than having groups like Isis or the Taliban destroying artifacts because they are "unislamic"

@janglobus9384

2 жыл бұрын

Why should Berlin return it? Schliemann, the greatest german archiologist discovert it. Modern egyipt have nothing to do with the ancient one.

@zerosabs3603

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gabriel-px8cv it’s like CPS, yeah you have no right to take them from their parents, but the parents might kill them.

As an Assyrian, most of my cultures valuables were stolen or destroyed by Arabs and Turks (mainly Muslim cultures). Not sure why Europeans are demonised so badly.

@TheBlkKat

2 жыл бұрын

My guess is because of how expansive their, especially Britiain's, colonization was and the overall lasting effects. At its height Britain had control of about 25% of the world's land.

@blupandax7902

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBlkKat Being able to control more land is an indication of how successful you are, not how evil you are. You think Kim Jong Un wouldn’t want to control 100% of the worlds land if only he had the power to do so?

@TheBlkKat

2 жыл бұрын

@@blupandax7902 I didn't say that their occupation of land was what made them evil. I was saying that they had substantial land that resulted in long last effects which means there are going to be a lot more voices expressing their distaste compared to other nations that didn't expand their reach as far.

@malirabbit6228

2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps because as you said Arab and Turks stole/ destroyed objects of your culture. How could you not see why europeans are demonize so badly? Europeans could have shown them a thing or two about looting from around the entire world! No just one area !

@malirabbit6228

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBlkKat At one while it was said that the sun never set on the British empire ! So yes, as they saw it, everything and everyone was up for grabs!

There was this one Scottish dude, Lord Elgin, who went to Greece and stole a ton of sculptures then sold them to the British museum. like he just straight up came with a group of artists and repair workers and ended up taking almost half of the parthenon marbles ಠ_ಥ

I love the blue in your braids!

@bobsburgers8497

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr they’re very pretty

Makes me think of a Bartimaeus trilogy passage where it says something like:"tourist came in thousands to see the artifact that had been stolen from them"😂

Places like the British Museum and the Louvre have absolutely no excuse for holding on to stolen works. They have archives so ludicrously packed that less than 10% of their collection is actually on display.

As a brazilian, something we've always wanted to do was to get back the gold and jewels that we're taken illegaly from our nation, and now belong, in most part to england, in fact the british crown is made of brasilian gold, mostly, but as its something that dates the begging of the xix century, we cant really make such claims, but still would like them to understand the story behind it

Simple solution: the colonial museums send back the ill-gotten artifacts to their home nation/territory, who make and send back replicas to display. If the argument of “the home nation lacks the means to care for the artifacts” actually rings true, then pay rent money for all artifacts from other nations for the price said nations decide. Thus allowing those wronged nations to make the money needed to facilitate proper artifact care and replication.

@giovanniacuto2688

3 жыл бұрын

Better use of Western taxpayers money to let the home nations themselves pay for conservation and for the West to take care of the replicas including using original materials and techniques. That way, if the actual artifacts cannot be sustained by the home nations at least the knowledge of their age, original location and how they were made can be retained for global posterity

3 жыл бұрын

ill-gotten?. The Mexicans can ask Aztecs artifacts they made conquering, slaving, making human sacrifices? The Greeks can ask their beloved objects when Alexander did the same in most Asia?. Every single tribe that exist committed genocide,over others. There is not a single innocent soul. Only the last loser will call evil the last winner, pure pathetic moral relativism.

@acat7798

3 жыл бұрын

Most people would be saddened by replicas but mostly will not care after a few weeks

@sandshark2

3 жыл бұрын

The issue we don’t take into account is embezzlement. We know that museums, particularly countries, have people who like to embezzle money, yet we decide to just hand them the money to pay back past wrongs? This is all built on promise and no real system. Replicas, however, are easier to work with, since you can’t secretly steal the only copy of- say a Greek statue, in Greece. There also comes the point of some of these original countries either being in poverty, or in near-war conditions. That money would be better spent helping a humanitarian crisis than cleaning machines. The first and up until now only Spino skeleton discovered was bombed to dust in Germany during WW2. A warring country is a no-go since you can’t defend history from a bomb. If Britain went to war, we should bet all items be stored outside of Britain.

@luisgregoriopadilla9553

2 жыл бұрын

Okay, that is a brilliant idea, in fact that way you could make several replicas for different museums.

Give the Parthenon marbles back to Greece

@TWak4ord

3 жыл бұрын

greece is bankrupt, like giving adopted children back to the impoverished

@chocolatbownie35

3 жыл бұрын

@@TWak4ord giving it back could bring money to the country by tourism and the marbles would return to their rightful place. If they are so worried about it they could help keep the objects safe in the place of origin Greece. It's not like they can't take care of the objects, they literally have in their museums spaces for the statues in the British museum

@aleksjamnik5360

3 жыл бұрын

@@chocolatbownie35 Greece already has a lot of tourism those things wouldn't help mutch it would probably just decay like most ancient structures and artifacts in Greece do

@aleksjamnik5360

3 жыл бұрын

@ Alexander's conquest bsrrely has anything to do with most greek artifacts as his empire was really short lived and then decided into several factions that didn't pay tribute or anything of the sort to Greece

@natelogos7662

2 жыл бұрын

Is Greece still at war with Turkey? I don't know the answer to that question, but if the Turks still fire weapons in Greek cities then I would say it's best that the marbles stay where they are so they can remain protected.

Wow, so much info but told to us in such an accessible way!! I love how this narrator uses their hands, and how this is edited altogether.. just a great video. Thank you!!

Amazing piece!! Very thought provoking and principled in addressing the issue. Thank you for your hard work!

Yeah, British Museum should bring half of Greece back to Greece lol

@haruyanto8085

4 жыл бұрын

You dont see her mentioning this either lol, the bias

@atomisedman6235

4 жыл бұрын

@@haruyanto8085 Whataboutism. You're the one with a bias

@dontignorewatchme5851

4 жыл бұрын

@GodF*ckdMyMom Nah dude hit it on the head. She's talking about ethical museum and their "artifacts" why does it matter to bring up Greek or African articles.

@minkyone

4 жыл бұрын

do not forget all the Italians artefacts... The best Della Robbia's terracottas I ever saw were not in Florence, Pisa, Rome or Milan but in London, at the British Museum.

@edmondshall2923

4 жыл бұрын

And a diamond on her crown in the middle was stolen from south Africa

Your three approaches roughly parallels the three most prominent families of ethical theories: deontology, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics. Interesting.

@Sesi_angel_india1000

4 жыл бұрын

I have no idea what these three theories are but... Cool comment 🤷🏾‍♀️

@TheRavenMask

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sesi_angel_india1000 Not OP, but deontology generally says certain actions themselves are right or wrong regardless of consequence, utilitarianism says the greater good should be pursued regardless if individual actions to reach it, and virtue ethics I'm more shaky about but emphasizes cultivating certain virtues in society. How they line up with the three arguments approximately: deontology, stealing is bad, give them back; virtue ethics, preservation of history and cultivation of education is most important and shouldn't be out in jeopardy by trying to return the artifacts; utilitarianism, education is diminished with replicas and returning objects diminishes controversy that could threaten a museums longterm goals.

i enjoy the fact that this is presented as an actual discussion and not just shoving an opinion down your throat, just giving you facts and letting you come to a conclusion yourself

My country's museums just keep artifacts from our own history and culture, as far as I know.

@clokie6671

2 жыл бұрын

My city has a very small museum, and it's mostly just indigenous artifacts or instruments (wich were donated or gifted by the local tribes, nothing stolen that i know about). The only "stolen" piece is a hat from a Spanish soldier, from the times of the revolution. It's nice

@anniek3866

2 жыл бұрын

There's like an Ice Cream Museum in the States The only that might be unethical about them is leaving with a tummy ache So I still have hope for the more modern museums here that are opening up

I'm Egyptian and I have very conflicted feelings about this. A lot of our monuments have been stolen by different countries over the years, it pains me to see that, but then I see our museums back home and how neglected they are, and I can't quite decide if it's better for those historical masterpieces to be respected in some of the biggest museums all around the world, or let it be abused and mishandled in their home country because we can't afford to do it!

@BeautifulEarthJa

3 жыл бұрын

The West should repatriate the items AND pay for museum upgrades.

@giovanniacuto2688

3 жыл бұрын

I live for part of the year in Turin and have visited the Museo Egizio many times. It's Turin's most popular tourist attraction. That said I wouldn't shed any tears to see the entire collection returned to Egypt and for Italian tax payers to be spending money on cultural artifacts produced in Italy. I am not remotely interested in visiting Egypt - too hot, too violent and too expensive to go there. If I want to know about pre--Islamic Egypt, there are plenty of books and videos which give all the information you need. I am amazed that a self-respecting Muslim country should spend so much money on preserving a pre-Islamic civilisation's artifacts. A truly devout Muslim nation would follow the example of Daesh/ISIS or the Taliban in Afghanistan. Nowadays, many Africans and African Americans claim Egypt as part of their culture. Assuming the case can be made, it is their responsibility, not that of Western governments to fund the whole "science" of Egyptology.

@NahlaAnwer

3 жыл бұрын

@@giovanniacuto2688 I don't think you realize how much Egyptians value their heritage from Ancient Egypt. Saying that we should destroy it because Egypt is a Muslim country leads me to believe that you might have a few misunderstandings as to what that means. The fact that you think ISIS or Taliban are devout Muslims in any way is very troublingly misguided and misinformed too. I'm not going to get into the whole thing, it would take away from what we're talking about. We love our ancient Egyptian heritage, we're very proud of it. The problem is not that we don't care so our museums are not cared for, it's that we can't afford it. We have so many beautiful things but not enough money to really make them shine, to do proper repairs with all the right temperatures and lights and all that. I don't live in Egypt right now, but whenever I visit, I try to sneak in some sightseeing, because even as an adult there's still some places I haven't visited or have only visited as a child and want to experience again as an adult.

@NahlaAnwer

3 жыл бұрын

@@BeautifulEarthJa we both know that's never going to happen lol.

@BeautifulEarthJa

3 жыл бұрын

@@NahlaAnwer we still have to know what's right and what SHOULD happen...

Museums don’t have obligations to the past, nations and people do.

I want to say this is a great content thank you for making and published this issue, PBS. You guys rock! I am from Indonesia, like other post-colonised countries, we got a lot of indigenous practices and culture that facing both globalization and tech revolution. This angle from museum concern is giving me a goosebumps cause it is true. it is also happen to 'current arts' some of the local artists got contracted from other top countries and got 'owned' by them. Ironically, most of us think it is cool because it is a 'global' form of appreciations. Fact : History repeats itself

Baartman's story is so heartbreaking...

They don’t teach you any of this in high school, thank you for the knowledge!

Across the globe we should work together to return all artifacts and create a global organizations to preserve our history

Kudos to the presenter for dealing bravely with the case of Sartjie Baartman, which must have been difficult. The way Baartman was treated is unconscionable.

I spent most of the summer exploring the museums of my home country, and had the opportunity to see exhumed human remains, jewelry, weapons, pottery, tools found in burial sites. There were also plenty replicas of what the original items would have looked like, recreations of the ancient people's homes, ancestor totems, shrines, canoes, etc. Those museums were fine to exist and fully ethical, the reason being is that they were about the ancestors of the very people who opened them. I can look at a curonian warrior's spearhead and not think that it was stolen. Because you can't steal what belongs to you. But a lot of our ancestral artefacts are missing and destroyed due to the archaeology craze in the 1800s. Much like it happened with every other "inrferior" European group, the germans who were in power over the land dug up the ancient burial sites(some of which were sacred) and exchanged them between themselves, often ending up neglecting them to the point these items are no longer in any shape worth mentioning. Not only that but they decided that this and that inferior group couldn't have _possibly_ made them and ended up telling that those items were made by someone else. It's downright disrespectful. If this is how white imperialists treated people who _looked like them_ I can't begin to imagine how bad it was for groups like the indigenous tribes of America, or Africans, etc.

@crazydragy4233

4 жыл бұрын

Prejudice is everywhere. The "us vs them" has always been part of humanity as it is and probably will remain to be

@giovanniacuto2688

3 жыл бұрын

Not far from London, there used to be a lovely little Roman town called Verulamium. After the Anglo-Saxons conquered "England", they pillaged the site in order to build the St Albans Abbey complex, of which the Cathedral still remains. England nowadays has enough cathedrals as it is. Personally I wish more of old Verulamium had remained for visitors to see. Fortunately I spend a lot of time in Italy where Roman remains are not in short supply.

@newguy8288

3 жыл бұрын

You lost me at white imperialist. Literally every other race and nation has done unjustly things to each other depending if they have ad the powder to do so.

@ngn6708

3 жыл бұрын

@@newguy8288 my guy your right but I don't think native Americans and native Australians where imperialist

I'm taking a class on this right now, we were at the Colorado History museum and there is a massive exhibit on the Ute Indians. They worked with the tribes of the Ute and got all of the artifacts ethically. Theres is a huge push in the US to repatriate the artifacts that were unethically acquired back to the people they belonged to. Especially when it comes to the Indian tribes. The problem with repatriation of items back to certain areas is that they won't be kept safe. I mena a few years ago ISIS was blowing up ancient Buddhist temples

@suzimonkey345

4 жыл бұрын

Yes! The museum in Iraq has only recently reopened after being utterly trashed! 😔

@tanya292

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe do process of returning on a case by case basis then. It's wrong to assume literally all areas in the world except these have enough strife that artifacts would be destroyed.

@joyouknow5385

4 жыл бұрын

Fear of terrorism is not an excuse to keep what was basically stolen. Honestly. Hypothetically. Many historical items were destroyed when European nations were constantly at war with each other. It doesn't give China the right to come in & take the Mona Lisa. Because Nazi Germany was destroying artifacts.

@hosuerodriguez8262

4 жыл бұрын

@@joyouknow5385 so you would return a historical artifact to Syria or Somali knoeing the state of those nations. I get it but as some one that looks at the big picture some nations don't have the infrastructure. Most nations do have it the artifacts should be returned but the few maybe should remain where they are.

@nyikomaswanganyi5983

4 жыл бұрын

@@hosuerodriguez8262 Somali and Syris can do whatever they want with their returned artefacts. You don't get to dictate or strongly feel a certain way about what people do with what belongs to them.

To be fair a lot of third world country artifacts are getting sold on the black market after all

Wow this was an invaluable investigation into the issue at hand, extremely well done, I highly doubt this will be my only viewing but I know for certain I'll share the for use when I encounter this discussion going forward, thank you so much!

Whoah, I thought about the same thing when I saw the black panther

@shariwelch8760

4 жыл бұрын

This is something we art historians have to think about all the time. I'm really glad that the movie brought the issue to a wider audience.

@haruyanto8085

4 жыл бұрын

The same applies to Tomb Raider and Indiana Jones

@yusepe1067

3 жыл бұрын

@ you are comparing empires and tribes from 18th to the 20th century, pleople aren't the same as like... 100 years ago, don't be such an ignorant asshole

You're so cool and smart. I love this channel. I wish more people could talk about controversial topics in such a calm, well-reasoned way.

The way museums used to work, and still mostly do; “Hippity hoppity, your history is our property”

It's seems like a case by case basis, questioning how well the piece is represented and which party has the better means to preserve it. But like, you don't need to display the original piece to give it's message. When I was a kid I thought that all museums made copies for display purposes, and the originals were protected in some national reserve, but maybe I only have that impression because I'm from the Midwest, and a lot of bigger, fancier museums see displaying the original as a major draw for traffic. But as you demonstrated with the Portland art museum example, an object being in a museum doesn't mean they're giving proper context to the piece. I would air that a museum that cares more about having the prestige of an original piece cares more about spectacle than education, and is nothing more than a glorified Ripley's sideshow tourist trap.

im surprised u didnt quote the international council of museums,in their code of ethics it indicates the third point you made to solve these isssues as the correct! if the museum isnt returning the piece they must work with the communities or ethnicies they came from!!!

I have one argument against the second line of thought that you mentioned. That it has been too long and the museums are preserving the objects and they are available for public consumption. When a culturally or historically important artefact is taken from one country and placed for the consumption of the public on the other side of the globe, it deprives a large portion of the population from the country/culture of origin of the artefact from consuming it. As an Indian, I have myself seen museums in my country that simply have photographs of missing objects instead of the objects themselves, with a small caption mentioning some museum in a distant country holding the original.

England continues to keep the Kohinoor diamond instead of returning it to India, the same has happened to many other former colonies

Ok but let’s remember that not all museums are bad. I’m not disagreeing with the video I’m just bringing up like, you don’t need rare artifacts at all to be a museum.

@wizzolo

2 жыл бұрын

the title is pretty clickbaity.

I’m getting a MA in public history this is a huge discussion right now in the field. Making sure things are ethical is something I definitely want practice in my work

I’ve always wondered about this same thing

@shariwelch8760

4 жыл бұрын

If you're ever in a museum, and you look at the tag and it says something like "Acquired in 1780," then definitely question how it was acquired.

@sirsteam6455

2 жыл бұрын

@@shariwelch8760 Even if you do question it at this point why would anyone care.

@shariwelch8760

2 жыл бұрын

@@sirsteam6455 😂 After spending years of my life in Museum Studies classes, I can tell you that thousands of people care, probably more. Just because you don't care doesn't mean nobody cares.

@sirsteam6455

2 жыл бұрын

@@shariwelch8760 I didn't say that I said why would anyone care not no one cares you misread what I said

@shariwelch8760

2 жыл бұрын

@@sirsteam6455 That question is astounding, I didn't even think to respond. People generally care if their cultural heritage is stolen. If you don't get that, I can't help you. Take some history classes maybe.

I don't know, I love going to museums and looking at the stuff, knowing that it's the genuine article that was made a long time before I was born. If that means I'm a bad person, well I'm guilty as charged.

@HighSentinel

2 жыл бұрын

Your not a bad person I feel the same way about going to a museum, besides where would you go to witness actual history, sure there is the website but that just boring because you can’t see it in person, where going to a museum has a special feeling about just all of history speaking to you. ( sounds weird I know, but that’s the best way I could put it)

Amazing video, quite informative and insightful!

🤦🏿‍♂️ it’s not ethical because for example your using someone dead body for profit

@YourMom-lb3mt

4 жыл бұрын

if im dead id rather my body is being studied and showed in the future than be rotting and be eaten by insects

@astoldbyt3683

4 жыл бұрын

MATURE GAMBINO see but the difference is you have a say and many people who’s bodies are in museums right now did not.

@alvallac2171

3 жыл бұрын

*you're (contraction of "YOU aRE") "Your" is for possession.

@FOLIPE

3 жыл бұрын

@@astoldbyt3683 they are also dead

@ihavenoenergyforyall4619

3 жыл бұрын

@@FOLIPE but they didn't give their consent nor were they asked of what to do of their remains.

It's such a tough subject, and on top of all the things you mentioned I think we should consider where objects can best be preserved. Part of me wishes the Bamiyan Buddhas had been in a museum somewhere so that the Taliban wouldn't have been able to destroy them.

@freakymoejoe2

4 жыл бұрын

@EmperorJuliusCaesar except theres a very big grey area for when something is considered stolen, especially when theres been a passage of decades. As an example the national Museum of Denmark holds some old writings from the viking age. They were written in iceland and icelands wants them back, even though culturally its just norse, which includes scandinavia. Whats more the writings were given to denmark via legal means. Should they be returned? Theres people pushing for both sides. Sometimes its obvious but not always.

@shariwelch8760

4 жыл бұрын

@EmperorJuliusCaesar It seems as simple as that, and I agree that sometimes it really is just theft. But there are definitely tricky cases. Sometimes a list of pros and cons can easily be well matched. Often though, you are right, things were just flat out stolen.

@haruyanto8085

4 жыл бұрын

@EmperorJuliusCaesar Lol your comment with that profile name is stupidly ironic

@haruyanto8085

4 жыл бұрын

@@shariwelch8760 Though in some cases they were taken in times of war, other times they we illegally bought and some they just bought it from the original owners but we'll never really know which is which and what is what

@debaxer

4 жыл бұрын

Let's not forget that the root of the problem was the US funding the Taliban's predecessors and helping them gain power in the 80s.

Dear narrator. Your style of speaking is amazing ❤️

I always thoght about that. Happy to have someone explain it even better for me. Thanks

Museums from colonizer countries do have an ethical obligation to return what they stole from their colonies. Because currently I'd have to buy a plane ticket to England, buy a ticket to the museum and jostle around just to get a glimpse of a piece of my own Indian history. Colonial countries should return things they STOLE from our countries. I know dissemination of knowledge is important. But how weird it is if I don't have have access to objects that will provide me with knowledge about my own culture but a bored kid from the colonizer country forced to go to a museum does.

@fionafiona1146

4 жыл бұрын

Colonial museums are ethically difficult too with the limited involvement of locals and how some still keep perpetuating some difficult "traditions" /social exclusion.

@tanya292

4 жыл бұрын

@@fionafiona1146 Are you talking about museums in the native countries or the colonizer countries? And who is ever excluded from a museum?

@communismisthefuture6503

4 жыл бұрын

tanya I can see this is a passionate issue for you, and I know this comment section isn’t gonna like this, but I have to disagree that they should HAVE to return the items. First of all, the current inhabitants of these nations aren’t the ones who pillaged. They may certainly benefit from what their ancestors did, and that needs to be acknowledged, but this negative feeling towards its current inhabitants is misguided imo. Secondly, you do not NEED to see what’s in this museum in person to learn about your heritage, I understand you’re passionate, but you make it seem like you’ll just die on the spot if you don’t have access to these items. Most modern finds are clearly photographed and labeled online. That being said, it would be really cool to have them nearer you. I think we should definitely take it piece by piece and not let emotion go too crazy. Further transportation could cause irreversible damage to what are likely frail items. Let’s also stop and be thankful that they were recovered and protected for this long... these items very well may not even exist today had they not been preserved. Just some food for thought... not everything is black and white, let’s not make irrational thought based on resentment.

@tanya292

4 жыл бұрын

@@communismisthefuture6503 no food for my thoughts. You're obviously not a person who is affected by this. So my emotions are high about this because it is something that is something that does concern me. Of course the current citizens are not the ones who stole these things. Doesn't give them the right to keep it either. What if I come to your house. Hurt your family, and destroy large portions of it and then I see this object that you have that means a lot to your family, maybe it's generations old, maybe you won it in some competition. I steal it. Now you keep trying to get it back but because I am richer than you, you are never really able to get it back. The police is like I don't care. Your neighbours are like that bitch stole our stuff too but all of you are powerless. Other random people tell you that it's useless and because I am rich I can take good care of it. Then I die and people start realizing I'm terrible and start demanding that my victims be heard. And their demands met. But hey my daughter is also rich so she says no I'm not returning your things because I didn't steal it so that means they are mine. And you are too poor and economically unstable to take care of it. You say that's not true and who is my fake daughter to judge you economic status and stability. Is that not irritating. How rich colonizing countries can come to another place. Abuse, enslave, rape and murder the people, steal resources. And then also steal important things that are dear and have meaning just because white people back home think "it's simply marvellous". And then leave but keep in tact the systems that they used to abuse nations. And then refuse to return those items because they are not done filling their coffers. And then citizens of those countries who are not even taught this part of their heinous history tell the natives that we don't deserve these things because hey you won't die if you don't see this. I know your people have never respected my people, but I won't let you turn this into an intellectual debate where both sides have very good points. It's our stuff, plain and simple. Edit: I am fucking livid at this so I guess I am very very irrational??? But your idea of rational is that let my country keep benefiting and you can just chill. Wow that sounds like the height of logic and rationality. Your views simply must be a heavenly amalgamation of all the enlightenment era thinkers. How do you do it? Don't you get tired of these amazing brilliant rational thoughts. *Round of applause for you my friend.

@communismisthefuture6503

4 жыл бұрын

tanya Ew. I said don’t get emotional and then you cried your eyes out. Stop with the bullcrap, it’s not that important. Do something else with your life rather than feel sorry

We watched the Black Panther scene in my History of Early Modern African to start our discussion of cultural reparations and restitutions

People in rapa nui (Easter Island) want their moái back, they offered to the British museum to make a replica with the same materials in the island but without the cultural/religious importance but they refused.

i really would like a world with copy museums, where you had the originals in the country they are supposed to be but also places with recreations of other cultures for kids to engage in history.

I loved that scene in Black Panther. It had me wondering the exact same thing - I'm sure all of this is no accident. It was brilliant.

i’m interested in how the bunkers each had a wife AND children 🤔

@blackwing97

3 жыл бұрын

why?

Ur display in the back is truly artistic, I luv it especially using the books as the waves that carry the history forward .I just love it .Thank u so much for ur video and for giving me an idea of what to do with my books 📚.

Most artisans given the opportunity to have their works adored by millions would gladly consent.

I once watched a documentary that examined this issue. Though I can't recall a lot of details now, there are other issues that were not highlighted in this video regarding the purchase of artifacts. In western countries there are more ethical processes in place yet despite this foreign artifacts can still be robbed from areas that: have loose laws, under-value the items or unstable economic/ geopolitical environments.