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Parliamentary group urges museums to take action on human remains

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By Olivia Dunn, Decolonising Museums
| Museums Association Journal Verified
Labour MP for Clapham & Brixton Hill, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, chairs the APPG-AR The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations (APPG-AR) is calling for a ban on the public display of human remains without consent.
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Culturally significant objects stolen from Bristol Archives

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By Rebecca Atkinson, Decolonising Museums
| Museums Association Journal Verified
A public appeal has been launched to identify four men who are believed to have stolen more than 600 artefacts from Bristol City Council’s museum collection. The artefacts are from the British Empire and Commonwealth collection, which is housed in Bristol Archives on Cumberland Road having previously been held by the former British Empire & Commonwealth Museum in the city. The museum service said security has been beefed up following the incident.
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A whole new world

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By Carol Dixon, Decolonising Museums
| Museums Association Journal Verified
As a visitor to the Wereldmuseum Amsterdam (formerly the Tropenmuseum) on several occasions over the past decade, I have observed a number of significant transformations within the storied architectural setting of this internationally renowned world cultures space. Housed within a Dutch neo-Renaissance-style building designed by architect Johannes Jacobus van Nieukerken, the site opened in 1926 as the home and museum of the Colonial Institute.
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