Museums: Geopolitics, Decolonisation, Globalisation and Migration

The Past is a Foreign Country

Webb, E., & Löwenthal, D. (1986) · The American Historical Review · doi:10.2307/1864381 · Cited by 3,621

Many middle passages : forced migration and the making of the modern world

Christopher, E., Pybus, C., & Rediker, M. (2007) · Cited by 153

Bitter sugar: Sugar and slavery in 19th century Mauritius

Teelock, V. (1998) · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · Cited by 54

THE ART OF (RE)POSSESSION: HERITAGE AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF CONGO'S DECOLONIZATION

Beurden, S. V. (2015) · The Journal of African History · doi:10.1017/s0021853714000681 · Cited by 51

Why the Past Matters

Löwenthal, D. (2011) · Heritage & Society · doi:10.1179/hso.2011.4.2.159 · Cited by 25

Art crime: terrorists, tomb raiders, forgers and thieves

Dundler, L. (2016) · Journal of Policing Intelligence and Counter Terrorism · doi:10.1080/18335330.2016.1231377 · Cited by 13

Museums and Archaeology in West Africa

Frank, B. E., & Ardouin, C. D. (1998) · African Studies Review · doi:10.2307/524846 · Cited by 10

Democratising museums and heritage ten years on : keynote address

Abungu, G. O. (2004) · SAMAB. South African Museums Association bulletin · Cited by 2

Our past creates our present: a brief overview of racism and colonialism in Western paleontology

Monarrez, P. M., Zimmt, J. B., Clement, A. M., Gearty, W., Jacisin, J. J., Jenkins, K. M., Kusnerik, K. M., Poust, A. W., Robson, S. V., Sclafani, J. A., et al. (2021) · Paleobiology · doi:10.1017/pab.2021.28 · Cited by 79

Social inequality determines science museums attendance in Latin America: a quantitative analysis of data from seven countries

Polino, C., Massarani, L., & Dawson, E. (2024) · Museum Management and Curatorship · doi:10.1080/09647775.2024.2357069 · Cited by 14

Planned Plunder, the British Museum, and the 1868 Maqdala Expedition

Gunning, L. P., & Challis, D. (2023) · The Historical Journal · doi:10.1017/s0018246x2200036x · Cited by 11

Community engagement in archaeology and heritage in Pakistan

Rizvi, U. Z. (2022) · Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage · doi:10.1080/20518196.2021.2008443 · Cited by 10

Sensory Ecofeminism for Heritage, Tourism, and Sustainability in Mauritius

Boswell, R. (2023) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su151310426 · Cited by 9

Cultural information bubbles: A new approach for automatic ethical evaluation of digital artwork collections based on Wikidata

Zhitomirsky‐Geffet, M., & Minster, S. (2022) · Digital Scholarship in the Humanities · doi:10.1093/llc/fqac076 · Cited by 7

Community Collaborations and Social Biographies of Museum Collections from Colonial Contexts

Chipangura, N., & Seabela, M. G. (2024) · Museum Worlds · doi:10.3167/armw.2024.120103 · Cited by 7

Indeterminacy in the cultural property restitution debate

Soirila, P. (2021) · International Journal of Cultural Policy · doi:10.1080/10286632.2021.1908275 · Cited by 7

Museums as Platforms of Resistance: The Use of Technology in Conflict Memory, Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding

Briceño-Florez, E., & Eccles, K. (2022) · Museum International · doi:10.1080/13500775.2022.2234196 · Cited by 6

Names of public memory spaces as sites of coloniality, cultural erasure, and downscaling in linguistic landscapes of Northern Zambia

Simungala, G., & Banda, F. (2025) · Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development · doi:10.1080/01434632.2025.2460686 · Cited by 6

Hominin heritage: How institutional repositories are managing collections, collaboration and repatriation

Black, W., Zipfel, B., Tawane, M., Alard, G., & Hine, P. (2025) · South African Journal of Science · doi:10.17159/sajs.2025/18569 · Cited by 6

“Bring the Objects out of the Basement!”: The Wellcome African Collection at Manchester Museum

Chipangura, N., Everest, S., Hawkins, A., Chipangura, P., & Mashizha, R. (2025) · African Arts · doi:10.1162/afar_a_00768 · Cited by 5

Specimens as individuals: Four interventions and recommendations for great ape skeletal collections research and curation

Kralick, A. E., Canington, S. L., Eller, A. R., & McGrath, K. (2023) · Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews · doi:10.1002/evan.22002 · Cited by 5

Decolonisation: meaning, sentiments and implications for heritage

Cant, J., Nolet, K., & Thomas, S. (2024) · International Journal of Heritage Studies · doi:10.1080/13527258.2024.2353574 · Cited by 4

The Return of the Sacred Stones of the Ovambo Kingdoms: Restitution and the Revision of the Past

Silvester, J., & Shiweda, N. (2020) · Museum and Society · doi:10.29311/mas.v18i1.3236 · Cited by 4

Reconceptualizing museum decolonization: A proposal for the repatriation of agency

Bacci, F. (2024) · Routledge Open Research · doi:10.12688/routledgeopenres.18053.1 · Cited by 4

Gendering Ocean Management for Sustainable Ocean Care in Ghana

Oduro, G. Y., Boswell, R., Wilson, D., & Ansah, J. W. (2024) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su16198722 · Cited by 3

Reframing the Present by Recontextualising The Past: Towards Decolonising Nigerian Museums

Sogbesan, O. (2022) · Museum International · doi:10.1080/13500775.2022.2234191 · Cited by 2

With and beyond museums. Cultural heritage work in the Somali diaspora

Rastas, A., & Niinikangas, I. (2023) · Museum and Society · doi:10.29311/mas.v21i3.4429 · Cited by 2

Preserved Human Bodies

Wilson, A. S., Mulhall, I., Cerdeira, V., & Schotsmans, E. M. J. (2023) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9781119592112.ch22 · Cited by 2

Reparation, Restitution, and the Politics of Memory / Réparation, restitution et les politiques de la mémoire

Laarmann, M., Fongang, C. N., Seemann, C., Vordermayer, L., & European Research Council (ERC) (2023) · De Gruyter eBooks · doi:10.1515/9783110799514 · Cited by 2

Examining the Colonial Legacies of the Hunterian’s Mineralogical and Petrological Collection: New Perspectives on Geoscience Collections

Anderson, E. B. (2024) · Museum and Society · doi:10.29311/mas.v22i2-3.4598 · Cited by 1

The Definition Debate: From Paradigm Shift to Bend in the Road

Weiser, M. E. (2020) · ICOFOM Study Series · doi:10.4000/iss.2922 · Cited by 1

Archives and Museums in the Decontextualised Digital World

Malenica, S. (2023) · Digital culture and humanities · doi:10.1007/978-981-19-9209-4_3 · Cited by 1

Représenter le phénomène muséal et son évolution. Approche statistique et compréhensive de la notion de musée.

Guiragossian, O. (2024) · theses.fr (ABES) · doi:10.70675/37592f8fz2387z4995za12cz9b2fd9c97a38 · Cited by 1

World and Marine Heritages

Boswell, R. (2022) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-99347-4_5

Gathering in the Heart of Prague for WAC-9 amid Conflict and Pandemic

Arthur, K. W., & Carman, J. (2022) · Archaeologies · doi:10.1007/s11759-022-09455-0

Repairing Cultural and Museum Cooperation between Cameroon and Europe

Fongang, C. N. (2023) · De Gruyter eBooks · doi:10.1515/9783110799514-006

Opening Horizons Between Antiquity and Today at Melbourne Museum

Kozlovski, A. (2023) · American Journal of Archaeology · doi:10.1086/727226

De quoi l’écomusée/musée de société est-il le nom ? Jeux de vérité et de pouvoir dans la modernité

Barbe, N. (2024) · Archipélies · doi:10.4000/12wkc

173Renombrar y reinterpretar un libro colonial temprano: El Códice Xiuhpohualli de Tenochtitlan

Martínez, R. M., & Romero, O. S. G. (2025) · De Gruyter eBooks · doi:10.1515/9783110792287-008

145Renaming and Reinterpreting an Early Colonial Book: The Codex Xiuhpohualli of Tenochititlan

Martínez, R. G. R., & Romero, O. S. G. (2025) · De Gruyter eBooks · doi:10.1515/9783110792287-007

Aflvaki safna í íslenskum samtíma: Menning, listir og fólk af erlendum uppruna

Hjelm, M. (2025) · Skemman

The Work of Art in the Age of Recombinant Appropriation: Exploring Data Curation in the GLAM sector through Classical Art Memes

Thompson, C. (2025) · Trinity's Access to Research Output (TARA) (Trinity College Dublin)

Patrimoine et immigration : Ellis Island Immigration Museum, Museu da Imigração et Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration : le rôle du musée comme médiateur dans la construction de l'identité (1980-2020)

Delaplace, A. (2020) · theses.fr (ABES) · doi:10.70675/ac1463cbz122dz4c82zadb7z19ffa879a262

Circulations et valeurs des objets océaniens dans les collections privées et publiques (1980-2020)

Bertin, M. (2021) · theses.fr (ABES) · doi:10.70675/5f690295z5ca8z4a8dzbfe6zc2e911f0f09d

From Then, to Now, to Beyond: An Archaeological-Naissance

Forssman, T. (2026) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-032-13365-6_9

Artifacts and allegiances: how museums put the nation and the world on display

Small, S. A. (2016) · Ethnic and Racial Studies · doi:10.1080/01419870.2016.1229497 · Cited by 59

The Limits To Institutional Change: Organisational Roles And Roots

Levitt, P. (2014) · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · doi:10.5281/zenodo.14701

Museum as a Space for Colonization and Decolonization and ‘What to Teach’

Jo, H.-J. (2024) · 역사교육 · doi:10.18622/kher.2024.09.171.97

The End of the Museum: Culture, Colonialism, and Liberation

Ni, R. (2026) · The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History · doi:10.1080/03086534.2026.2651214

Museums and Politics: An Introduction

Gray, C. (2015) · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · doi:10.1057/9781137493415_1