tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972497915033440413.post3251404633779146642..comments2024-03-20T18:15:41.858+00:00Comments on Looting Matters: Burns Night GreetingsDavid Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13164794689385933318noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972497915033440413.post-84795623960407333122010-01-26T12:55:58.058+00:002010-01-26T12:55:58.058+00:00The British Museum, above all,a British institutio...The British Museum, above all,a British institution that is intended to serve the British public whose taxes support that gargantuan institution. It is true that under Macgregor, some are even beginning to forget that this museum is more British than most institutions in London. Attempts by MacGregor to present the museum as a world or universal museum, which it is not, should not deceive anyone that it is an institution founded by an Act of the British Parliament. Universal or world institutions are not founded by national acts of a particular State. Repetitions by MacGregor that London is the centre of world cultural affairs should not mean that other parts of the world, including Scotland, are excluded from the mandate of the British Museum. Contradictions about what the British Museum is for will increase in due course when MacGregor and his supporters begin to tell more unconvincing stories about the artefacts in that museum. Scotsmen and Scotswomen as well as Scottish culture are clearly not excluded from the mandate of a museum that pretends to serve the whole world.DR.KWAME OPOKUhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10807521316037049823noreply@blogger.com