“Museums, Heritage, Culture: Into the Conflict Zone” by Kavita Singh (2015).

“But think for a moment of the history of museums. Think of the way their collections have been built, and the purposes they have served. Think of the violent encounters that often lay behind the collecting of curiosities in the age of exploration; or think of the museums built by missionaries to display pagan gods wrenched away from natives. Think of the vast collections built (and the ways these were built) during the age of colonialism, with entire monuments transported across the seas and re-erected in museum galleries. Think of the nations transformed by revolutions, where treasures were violently wrested away from the church and presented as desacralized avatars in museums”.

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https://www.academia.edu/15989299/Museums_Heritage_Culture_Into_the_Conflict_Zone