Almost 500 objects of colonial looted art have been ceremonially handed back to Indonesia in an event at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden. Caretaker culture minister Gunay Uslu symbolically signed over ownership of the objects, currently in possession of the National Museum of World Cultures, to Hilmar Farid, director general of the ministry of culture in Indonesia. Last week the government announced that 478 objects, “wrongfully brought to the Netherlands during the colonial period, acquired under duress or…
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