The Empty Showcase Syndrome
European countries, including the Netherlands, are increasingly more willing to return looted art to their former colonies. In doing so, however, they are confronted with hard choices. In The Empty Showcase Syndrome, Jos van Beurden explores three of the toughest questions that countries and governm...
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| description | European countries, including the Netherlands, are increasingly more willing to return looted art to their former colonies. In doing so, however, they are confronted with hard choices. In The Empty Showcase Syndrome, Jos van Beurden explores three of the toughest questions that countries and governments face. First, former colonial powers often hesitate to relinquish control over the provenance research into the looted items to their former colonies. Secondly, most private owners keep quiet about their collections, while these collections should also be included in the restitution debates. Finally, many former colonies struggle with the question of where exactly the returned collections should go: to their national museums or to the old royal houses or indigenous communities from which these collections were stolen. In this book, Jos van Beurden uses many examples from the Netherlands, which has recently returned stolen art to Indonesia and Sri Lanka. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1685862025-10-24T05:23:39Z The Empty Showcase Syndrome Beurden, Jos history art collections restitution museums decolonialization objects thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism European countries, including the Netherlands, are increasingly more willing to return looted art to their former colonies. In doing so, however, they are confronted with hard choices. In The Empty Showcase Syndrome, Jos van Beurden explores three of the toughest questions that countries and governments face. First, former colonial powers often hesitate to relinquish control over the provenance research into the looted items to their former colonies. Secondly, most private owners keep quiet about their collections, while these collections should also be included in the restitution debates. Finally, many former colonies struggle with the question of where exactly the returned collections should go: to their national museums or to the old royal houses or indigenous communities from which these collections were stolen. In this book, Jos van Beurden uses many examples from the Netherlands, which has recently returned stolen art to Indonesia and Sri Lanka. 2025-10-24T05:23:38Z 2025-10-24T05:23:38Z 2025-10-23T08:15:15Z 2025 book ONIX_20251023T101257_9781040799895_2 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/107732 9781040799895 9789048564071 9781003705987 9781040773994 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/168586 eng open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/107732/1/9781040799895.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003705987 10.4324/9781003705987 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781040799895 9789048564071 9781003705987 9781040773994 Routledge 176 Oxford open access |
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