Lecture: Indigenous Interventions in Museums at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
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A event on Thursday 9th December. The event starts at 19:30.


This year's December Winter Lecture for Bristol Museums is given by ORIGINS Festival Artistic Director Michael Walling, who will discuss the ORIGINS Festival and Indigenous interventions in museum spaces.

Relationships between museums and Indigenous people have become increasingly complex in recent years, with questions of ownership, appropriation, decolonisation and repatriation coming to the fore. ORIGINS has been working closely with Indigenous artists and major museums to move these important conversations forward.

In this lecture, Michael discusses a range of Indigenous interventions in museum spaces, from Indigenous Australia and Arctic at the British Museum to Tanya Tagaq at the National Maritime Museum and Totem Latamat at Manchester Museum.

By engaging directly with people who were once colonised by Britain, can museums move beyond the perception that they represent a storage space for imperial looting?

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