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Museums should participate in cultural exchange, if a museum feels under threat then they have channels they can trust to protect their artifacts until they can be returned

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merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

if a museum feels under threat

If you run a museum in Afghanistan and are afraid that the Taliban is going to execute you unless you destroy some blasphemous statue, are you going to risk your life to send the artifact to the British Museum, or are you just going to destroy it? Yeah, some heroes will definitely risk their lives, but most won’t.

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- ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Better than nothing
  
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  - merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The alternative isn’t “nothing”, it’s getting precious cultural artifacts out of high risk countries where there’s a high likelihood of the artifacts simply being destroyed.
    
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    ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    How do you think consent works?
    
    If they are consenting then that’s just my suggestion already
    
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