Vatican unveils new ethnographic display of Rwanda screens

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The display at the Anima Mundi Ethnological Museum featured a scientific presentation of the restoration process as well as the research that preceded it. It came as ethnographic museums in Europe and North America are grappling with demands from Indigenous groups and former colonies to return artifacts dating from colonial times. The Vatican has long insisted that the basis of its ethnographic collection stemmed from gifts from Catholic missionaries.

Published 3 months ago · Rwanda

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Vatican unveils new ethnographic display of Rwanda screens

The Vatican Museums has officially reopened its African and American ethnographic collections by showcasing intricately restored Rwandan raffia screens. The display at the Anima Mundi Ethnological Museum came as ethnographic museums in Europe and North America are grappling with demands…

3 months ago·United States

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Vatican unveils new ethnographic display of Rwanda screens

The Vatican Museums has officially reopened its African and American ethnographic collections by showcasing intricately restored Rwandan raffia screens

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Vatican unveils new ethnographic display of Rwanda screens

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican Museums officially reopened its African and American ethnographic collections Thursday by showcasing intricately restored Rwandan raffia screens that were sent by Catholic missionaries to the Vatican for a 1925 exhibit.

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Vatican unveils new ethnographic display of Rwanda screens

The Vatican Museums officially reopened its African and American ethnographic collections Thursday by showcasing intricately restored Rwandan raffia screens that were sent by Catholic missionaries to the Vatican for a 1925 exhibit.The display at the Anima Mundi Ethnological Museum featured a scientific presentation of the restoration process as well as the research that preceded it, with consultations with Rwanda’s own ethnographic museum, a UCL…

3 months ago·Jacksonville, United States

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