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The Role of Digital Technology in the Restitution of Cultural Artifacts - Georgetown Journal of International Affairs

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Should states and museums use digital technology as a replacement for restitution and repatriation of cultural artifacts such as the Parthenon Sculptures? Technological solutions that help them face up to the injustices of the past are laudable but will not necessarily defuse the repatriation claims they may be bound by. It is unrealistic to expect robots to settle disputes concerning the ownership and belonging of collection items that evoke relationships, knowledge, and sacrifice. Introduction A vast corpus of museum collections around the world contain items that were stolen, looted, or smuggled from their original sources and owners. To determine whether a museum is justified in keeping an individual collection item, provenance research may be undertaken to establish several factors such as: the conditions under which an individual object was collected; from and by whom it had been taken in the ownership chain; from where the item had been removed; and how long it had been in that

Science & Technology The Role of Digital Technology in the Restitution of Cultural Artifacts Christa Roodt July 18, 2022 Should states and museums use digital technology as a replacement for restitution and repatriation of cultural artifacts such as the Parthenon Sculptures? T echnological solutions that help them f ace up to the injustices of the past are laudable but will not necessarily defuse the repatriation claims they may be bound by. It is unrealistic to expect robots to settle disputes concerning the ownership and belonging of collection items that evoke relationships, knowledge, and

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