20 Sep 2022

Cultural items returning to Australia from Otago Museum

From Lately, 10:25 pm on 20 September 2022

Museums are changing, and introducing new policies to see the return of culturally significant items. This November six items from the Otago Museum will return to their original home with the Warumungu people in Australia's Northern Territory. Robert Morris is the Director of Collections, Research and Education at Otago Museum. He's has been working on the repatriation of these particular items. He tell Karyn how they came to the Otago Museum, and the process to send them home.

Otago Museum

Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon