Decolonization of a museum? By Robert James Parsons
Decolonization of a museum? By Robert James Parsons At a time when the vast colonial empires of the European powers have disappeared, the word “decolonization” has mostly slipped into the history books. Using it as the basis for an ethnography museum’s strategic four-year development plan would strike most people as strange – to say the least. Yet this is exactly what Geneva’s Museum of Ethnography (MEG by its French acronym) decided to do. At a press conference in September…
