Encounters exhibition: a stunning but troubling collection of colonial plunder
Submitted by Paul Daley on
The National Museum of Australia’s show of Indigenous Australian objects is a museological minefield, raising questions about why they cannot stay in the country from which they were taken
The National Museum of Australia’s exhibition, Encounters, is drawn from the vast and rarely seen Australian Indigenous collection of the British Museum, a repository of booty from all corners of an empire under constant erosion.