About:
The AfricaMuseum Provenance Research Team operates through the PROCHE project (Provenance Research on the Ethnographic Collection), a federal science policy program implemented by the AfricaMuseum Presentation of the report Shared heritage: universality, restitution and circulation of works of art by Jean-Luc Martinez.
The team has achieved concrete results, as in June 2021, the ownership rights of almost 800 looted objects from the AfricaMuseum were transferred to the Congolese state. However, significant limitations persist since the collections of the AfricaMuseum are the property of the federal state and therefore a decision on their ownership cannot be taken by the museum itself, but only by the Federal State, and they still haven’t been physically repatriated despite legal ownership.
