Freakonomics Radio · 2026-08-28 · 51 min · 7,830 words

How to Return Stolen Art (Update)

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I'm quite famous for not doing what I'm told. Well it's very convenient for our purposes, I have to say. Well we can just keep it where there are those three. Well, especially the man with the big fuzzy microphone. That is me with Patricia Allen in the Kelvin Grove Museum in Glasgow, Scotland. At the time, she was curator of world cultures for the 11 institutions that make up the Glasgow Museums.

which made her responsible for all non European objects in their collections. We have come to the Kelvin Grove to see a group of objects known as Benin Bronze, artworks and artifacts looted by Britain from the historic Kingdom of Benin in what is now Nigeria. The last time I tried to see some Benin bronze in a museum, at the British Museum in London, Our microphones were confiscated, and then, as it turned out, all the Africa galleries were closed that day.

Today in Glasgow. This is the head of an obe. So all of these heads By ancestors.

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