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Western museums are beginning to re-evaluate how they portray cultures and history and return stolen artifacts. But for change to be meaningful, it needs to be truly inclusive.
There is not a single historian, publisher or archivist on the review panels whose feedback will help shape Australia’s new cultural policy
The Mapungubwe site offers evidence of precolonial innovation and technology.
The ways Americans talk about firearms is full of contradictions, two communication scholars explain – and that powerfully shapes the country’s approach to gun policy.
The sale of fossils at auction houses reflects a problematic trend of privileging profit over knowledge and education.
The Spencer/Cahill Collection at Museums Victoria contains approximately 170 bark paintings – and now we can name one of the artists behind them.
Libraries are sharing knowledge so that when the war is over, Ukraine can see its cultural treasures rescued and restored.
We can emerge from the pandemic a culturally stronger and more forward-looking and resilient country than before if we support the culture sector and digitalization.
Plantation museums could be ideal venues for students to learn about the nation’s history of race-based slavery, but only if they stop whitewashing the horrors of what took place on their grounds.
What the world stands to lose due to Putin’s unprovoked war.
US museums have sought to improve their diversity, equity and inclusion for decades, but progress has been slow.
Museums allow us to delve deep into the past with eye-catching displays of artefacts, ancient textiles, high-quality images and short films that narrate how our ancestors lived.
Stone tools, clubs, boomerangs, decorative shellwork: a survey of 45 museums in the UK has found a vast number of Indigenous Australian objects. Not all were stolen; some were gifted or traded.
The people in charge of museums may lack the requisite expertise to manage non-fungible tokens, and the upside is far from guaranteed.
Nigerian museums continue to present colonised versions of history. This harms local communities.
Recovering historical genetic data has been severely impeded by the methods used to preserve specimens, from dried butterfly wings to platypus bills floating in alcohol.
From 1996 to 2001, the Taliban outlawed almost all forms of art while looting and destroying museums. With their resurgence, Australia must strengthen measures to stop trafficking of antiquities.
Nigeria should stop showing contempt for history as a subject, profession or topic of discussion.
The Uffizi Gallery in Florence has threatened legal action against Pornhub for use of its art in pornographic work.
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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Assistant Director of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Public Humanities and Director of the ANU Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
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Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Macquarie University
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Professor of History, UMass Amherst
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Postdoctoral research fellow, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology and Tourism, University of Nigeria
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Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art, National Gallery of Victoria, The University of Melbourne
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Eminent Scholar and Professor of Economics Emeritus, Auburn University
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Director, Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in School of Art History and Art Education, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer School of Art History and Art Education, UNSW Sydney
