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Apology for Aboriginal art and cultural thefts to Tasmanian Indigenous communities long time coming
Two of Tasmania’s oldest institutions will today apologise to the state’s Aboriginal communities for stealing and mistreating cultural heritage for more than a century.
Key points:
- The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and the Royal Society of Tasmania will publicly apologise to Aboriginal people
- The institutions played pivotal roles in exhuming Aboriginal bodies and stealing artefacts in the name of science
- It’s hoped the apology will be followed with attitudinal change and continued consultation with Aboriginal Tasmanians
The apology by the Royal Society of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) was partly brought about because of the decades-long battle by traditional owners to get 14,000-year-old ancient rock art out of…
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