Comments on: Nazi art restitution bill likely to become law http://www.elginism.com/20090630/2186/ Elgin Marbles (Parthenon Marbles or Sculptures) Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:10:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DR. KWAME OPOKU http://www.elginism.com/20090630/2186/comment-page-1/#comment-5517 DR. KWAME OPOKU Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:36:31 +0000 http://www.elginism.com/?p=2186#comment-5517 “According to Dismore, a Labour Member of Parliament, the best estimate is that there are about 20 looted items in U.K. museums, although there could be more”. Even if attention were confined to Nazi-loot, there should be more that twenty in UK museums. There are definitely more than twenty looted items in U.K museums. In the British Museum alone there are many Benin Bronzes. If you add to this all the Ethiopian treasures and manuscripts, this museum alone has more than twenty. On the Ethiopian treasures that are in the British Museum, see Afromet www.afromet Ethiopian treasures are found at the following places in the United Kingdom: The British Library The British Museum Duke of Wellington's Regimental Museum Halifax Dundee University Museum Edinburgh University Library The John Rylands Uni Library Lancaster Museum & Priory National Archives of Scotland The Schyen Collection The Victoria & Albert Museum Windsor Castle. Add to this, all the Asante Regalia and other items in Victoria and Albert to the Ethiopian crosses and crowns the number can easily reach hundreds. Let the British Parliament undertake to tell us the facts the museums have been hiding: how many of their exhibits are looted or acquired under dubious circumstances? Kwame Opoku. “According to Dismore, a Labour Member of Parliament, the best estimate is that there are about 20 looted items in U.K. museums, although there could be more”.

Even if attention were confined to Nazi-loot, there should be more that twenty in UK museums.

There are definitely more than twenty looted items in U.K museums. In the British Museum alone there are many Benin Bronzes. If you add to this all the Ethiopian treasures and manuscripts, this museum alone has more than twenty. On the Ethiopian treasures that are in the British Museum, see Afromet http://www.afromet Ethiopian treasures are found at the following places in the United Kingdom: The British Library
The British Museum
Duke of Wellington’s Regimental Museum Halifax
Dundee University Museum
Edinburgh University Library
The John Rylands Uni Library
Lancaster Museum & Priory
National Archives of Scotland
The Schyen Collection
The Victoria & Albert Museum
Windsor Castle.

Add to this, all the Asante Regalia and other items in Victoria and Albert to the Ethiopian crosses and crowns the number can easily reach hundreds. Let the British Parliament undertake to tell us the facts the museums have been hiding: how many of their exhibits are looted or acquired under dubious circumstances?

Kwame Opoku.

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