Slave trade artefacts feature in new exhibition

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Slave trade artefacts feature in new exhibition



The Ulster Museum has identified artefacts stolen or looted from other countries or connected to the slave trade among its collections.


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Some are on display in a new exhibition called Inclusive Global Histories.


Representatives from ethnic minority organisations helped set it up and provided advice.


The museum has about 4,500 items collected from Asia, Africa, America and Oceania in the 19th and early 20th centuries.


Some other museums are examining potential links to the slave trade or whether they have items stolen, looted or removed by the British during the period of empire.


Some have received requests for items to be returned from Australia, Asia and South America.


According to the curator of modern history at National Museums NI, Tríona White Hamilton, many of the artefacts from other cultures were collected by the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society and then donated to the Ulster Museum in 1910.


"There's only a limited amount of records that come with the collections," she told BBC News NI.


"People collected things for all sorts of reasons - they were curious about other cultures around the world, some had deep appreciation for the life and skills of indigenous cultures.


"But there's also evidence that there were items that were collected unethically as well.


"The items in the world cultures collection really reflect the Western collectors that collected them at that time."


Ms White Hamilton said that the Ulster Museum has begun to trace the provenance of some of those items.