I don’t disagree. But this was particularly striking, given the proportion of the objects stolen during empire. And they had really quite a lot of text to play with: long captions for each object, plus discursive sections. Given they mentioned the colonial archaeology, I still think it striking.
I’m obviously well used to seeing these sorts of issues, especially with the BM (with their history of refusing even to repatriate human remains) but so many sacred and stolen objects (eg the first depiction of a human Buddha) was striking enough that even my elderly in-laws commented.
A lot of museum visitors are now primed to notice these issues and interpretation has to find a line between admitting, informing, telling people what they know, making others feel they're being hit over the head with messaging etc. The lack of discussion/action at the top is a problem, of course
Too many ‘strikings’, but I was very struck ;-)