On his next visit to Cologne, the figure will probably be handed over to him at a small ceremony. Now King Asabaton has been allowed to touch them once or three times in the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum.
Image: Jana Mai
Tears in the museum: A royal delegation from Cameroon inspects a figure that is to be restituted. The guests pin high hopes on the return.
fMuseums used to want to accumulate things, now museums want to give things away. At least that applies to the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne, whose director Nanette Snoep called restitution her mission on July 9 during a visit to a royal delegation from Cameroon.
The concept of mission comes from the Christian religion. Museum curators, who understand their office like Snoep, act like a baptized pagan king who worships what he has burned and burns what he has worshiped. But even if the direction and intention of the transactions initiated by the museum have been reversed, one condition for the success of the business activity has remained the same: in dealing with high-ranking people whose status entitles them to give or receive valuable objects the other person’s formal expectations of correct behavior are observed.
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