Museums

Against the cultural-industrial complex

This obsession is obscuring important history

“Decolonisation” ideology distorts and condescends

Returning cultural items can be vice clad as virtue

Or a fast march through the institutions

Proponents of repatriation of the remarkable sculptures have shown scant regard to Nigeria’s endemic corruption and the fate of bronzes already sent back to Africa

If we must return the Elgin marbles, why not any other artefact?

Dinosaur skeletons have stalked their way out of the museum world and into that of well-heeled collectors

It is the philosophical water in which we swim