In 2006, Neil MacGregor, then director of the British Museum, confidently asserted “repatriation is yesterday’s question”. He was speaking against the backdrop of a loan of historic east African artefacts to the National Museums of Kenya. MacGregor argued that circulating historic artefacts in such a way made issues of ownership redundant. At the time, others disagreed; 12 years later, the question is emphatically today’s.
2006年,時任大英博物館(British Museum)館長尼爾•麥格雷戈(Neil MacGregor)曾自信地斷言,「歸還是昨天的問題」。他是在談及出借給肯亞國家博物館(National Museums of Kenya)的一批有歷史意義的東非文物時說這番話的。麥格雷戈辯稱,以這種方式交流歷史文物,使得所有權討論變得多餘。當時就有人不同意他的看法;12年後,歸還文物絕對是今天的問題。
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