Ideally, in a worldwide socialist planet that values arts and historical artifacts for all mankind, we could rotate/loan out groups of artifacts to museums around the world so that everyone can get a chance to see them in person without having to transport themselves across huge distances. Of course this must be done with the consent of the peoples who historically created these artifacts.
As for right now, you could digitise and make freely available high quality copies through the internet. Not everywhere has proper internet access though so it's not perfect. Or if colonising countries really care about these artifacts they should help their former colonies construct and staff, at no charge and under these countries control, properly maintained and curated museums to safeguard ancient works in the places they came from. This way any money generated from these works actually goes to enrich the places that they were stolen from and not the British/French.
I mentioned this elsewhere in this thread, but there are some items that are more important to certain regions than others. Like the Rosetta Stone isn't of historical importance to Egypt, and I don't think they want it back. But, it's of massive historical significance to Europe.
To be honest, I was just having this conversation with an actual archeologist a few days ago. I'm just parroting this point and I hadn't really thought about it too much. I figured someone with a PhD knows a lot more than I do about this stuff.
The artifact that had 2 different ancient Egyptian writing systems on it, and led to a breakthrough in understanding hieroglyphics, isn't of historical significance to Egypt?
I'm drawing a blank on why it'd be more important to France.
Yea in a not shit system a visitors museum could just be a constantly shifting hall of traveling exhibits (real museums would be needed for all the preservation and archiving type work though).
Unlike Japan's other national art museums, NACT is an 'empty museum', without a collection, permanent display, and curators. Like Kunsthalle in German-speaking regions, it accommodates temporary exhibitions sponsored and curated by other organizations.The policy has been successful. In its first fiscal year in 2007, it had 69 exhibitions organized by arts groups and 10 organized by NACT. Its Monet exhibition, held between 7 April and 2 July 2007, was the second most visited exhibition of the year, not only in Japan but in the world.
When I visited, there was a museum/show/gallery of how to design furniture, streets, appliances etc that can be used by people across all ages, it was neat.
A lot of museums already do that. The natural history museum has a space that rotates what's there every few months. Sometimes there's really neat shit, they had a whole bunch of movie used costumes and stuff one time. Got to see the original Gorn costume, Kirk's green tunic thing, Darth Vader suit from Empire, everything from Indiana Jones and a bunch of other cool movie shit.
Ideally, in a worldwide socialist planet that values arts and historical artifacts for all mankind, we could rotate/loan out groups of artifacts to museums around the world so that everyone can get a chance to see them in person without having to transport themselves across huge distances. Of course this must be done with the consent of the peoples who historically created these artifacts.
As for right now, you could digitise and make freely available high quality copies through the internet. Not everywhere has proper internet access though so it's not perfect. Or if colonising countries really care about these artifacts they should help their former colonies construct and staff, at no charge and under these countries control, properly maintained and curated museums to safeguard ancient works in the places they came from. This way any money generated from these works actually goes to enrich the places that they were stolen from and not the British/French.
My ideas were pay reparations or establish a leasing system. The home country places a leasing fee for a set amount of years on the museum.
The Cairo museum did a traveling King Tut exhibit a while ago. So free exchanges still occur.
I mentioned this elsewhere in this thread, but there are some items that are more important to certain regions than others. Like the Rosetta Stone isn't of historical importance to Egypt, and I don't think they want it back. But, it's of massive historical significance to Europe.
Pretty sure the Rosetta Stone is still important to Egypt, my dude. Colonizers should return everything they stole.
To be honest, I was just having this conversation with an actual archeologist a few days ago. I'm just parroting this point and I hadn't really thought about it too much. I figured someone with a PhD knows a lot more than I do about this stuff.
The artifact that had 2 different ancient Egyptian writing systems on it, and led to a breakthrough in understanding hieroglyphics, isn't of historical significance to Egypt?
I'm drawing a blank on why it'd be more important to France.
Yea in a not shit system a visitors museum could just be a constantly shifting hall of traveling exhibits (real museums would be needed for all the preservation and archiving type work though).
I went to a museum in Tokyo that does this. The National Art Center, Tokyo
When I visited, there was a museum/show/gallery of how to design furniture, streets, appliances etc that can be used by people across all ages, it was neat.
A lot of museums already do that. The natural history museum has a space that rotates what's there every few months. Sometimes there's really neat shit, they had a whole bunch of movie used costumes and stuff one time. Got to see the original Gorn costume, Kirk's green tunic thing, Darth Vader suit from Empire, everything from Indiana Jones and a bunch of other cool movie shit.