The Game of Museums

Given a choice, would you keep historic artefacts and art at their point of discovery or shift them to a world renowned nation the most developed world?

As immoral as it sounds, some people still choose the latter on the grounds that protecting artefacts is more important than its cultural significance.

The developed nations have greater ability to preserve, protect and showcase these artefacts given their advanced infrastructure and technology. Moreover, driven by the fact that every artefact has its own story and it can be told by anywhere, these nations have greater reach and the ability to create tourism and a globalised impact for these artefacts throught he creation of world renowned museums.

However, no matter how subjective the concept of morality may be, should we be okay with transferring the right to monetise the artefacts to people not belonging to the same history and culture? Should we be okay with taking away the context and story out of the artefact and transport it to a foreign museum?

Promoting such a narrative is the same as promoting neo colonialisation, taking away the glory and might of the very same culture and denying the same people an extremely rich history they were once proud of.