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COMMENT 'In these times, museums can be critical sites of debate on what a nation is'

VICTORIAN museums with substantial colonial collections usually have some serious superiority issues. One of the central issues with repatriation is discrepant ideas around the guardianship of objects. The Museum of Scotland is profiting from this – it’s the only exhibition of its kind in the UK – but there are some serious moral and practical questions that go beyond colonial bureaucratic legislation.