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4:32 CAT | 04 Apr 2018
A crown from the Maqdala exhibition at the V&A in south-west London. Photograph: V&A Museum
The UK could return to Ethiopia treasures taken 150 years ago – including a gold crown and a royal wedding dress – on a long-term loan, the London-based Guardian newspaper reports.
Ethiopia filed a restitution claim in 2007 for hundreds of artefacts and manuscripts taken during the 1868 capture of Maqdala, the mountain capital of Emperor Tewodros II in what was then Abyssinia.
Ethiopia’s claim had been turned down, but the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Tristam Hunt, had suggested a compromise, the newspaper reported.
“The speediest way, if Ethiopia wanted to have these items on display, is a long-term loan … that would be the easiest way to manage it,” he is quoted as saying.
Maqdala 1868: a display of about 20 Ethiopian objects will open at the museum tomorrow to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle at Maqdala.
The event has been advertised on the museum’s website:
Source: BBC
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