Returns: Rethinking Objects, Knowledge, and Relationships at the Fowler

On February 5, 2024, the Fowler returned a group of objects to His Majesty, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the 16th Asante King (Asantehene). On July 23, 2024, 20 historical treasures were returned to the Warumungu community in Tennant Creek, in the northern Territory of Australia. Join Silvia Forni, the Shirley & Ralph Shapiro Director of the Fowler Museum, and Erica P. Jones, senior curator of African arts and manager of curatorial affairs, for a conversation about the processes that enabled these returns and what museums gain when they let go of certain objects.
Photo by AP Photo/Misper Apawu
This program is part of the Ground Breaking Lecture Series and organized by the Waystation Initiative, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.

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