Portugal considers 'decolonising' its museums

Fifty years ago, Portugal ended its colonial empire with the Carnation Revolution and, under the auspices of President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, began a process aimed at recovering the heritage that Portugal had stolen from its former colonies.

This approach, which is becoming relevant again today, will target museums in particular.

Like many countries, including France, Portugal is going through a mini-earthquake as it looks back at its shameful past.

While England stubbornly refuses to consider the problem, Portugal is making reparations and studying the possibility of returning the artistic, ethnographic and/or cultural heritage looted from the countries it colonized in the past.

According to the weekly espresso Posted by International mailA Brazilian magazine has evidence that some of the pieces on display at the National Archaeological Museum and the Santos Rocha Municipal Museum in Figueira da Foz were forcibly stolen by Portuguese soldiers.

In order to decide on the possibility of a response, we are waiting for a conference on this subject to be held next March in Figueira da Foz (Portugal).

Meanwhile, Henrique Raposo, editorial writer,espresso I finish: “And if we Portuguese return the number piHDoes this mean that we can demand compensation from the Turks for the way the Moorish pirates have attacked the Portuguese coast to plunder and enslave thousands of Portuguese so far?'In the early nineteenth century^H ifHKey? Shall we ask the French?but what'They return byeHThese are d'Incalculable value stolen during the invasions [napoléoniennes] ?“.

The question is asked.