Dutch Museums Voice Support for Government’s Proposed Repatriation Initiative

With France having taken steps to return looted artifacts to Benin and Senegal by 2021, the Netherlands is now establishing processes to identify and repatriate plundered objects that reside in the country’s museums. According to a report by the Guardian, the directors of the Rijksmuseum and Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam have voiced support for the proposed creation of a legal apparatus that would manage the return of an estimated 100,000 objects. The proposal comes from a new report by the Du