What does decolonizing museums look like in action? How does repatriation affect and change the objects? And how to take a deep hard look into the colonialist mechanisms of museums and instead build something that benefits the communities involved?

Wisam Elfadl is a cultural producer, queer activist and a member of the Wasla collective, and the curator of the new exhibition Being Black – Afro Finns' stories in Helsinki City Museum (22.4.-24.9.2023). Eeva-Kristiina Nylander is a researcher working with Sámi heritage and repatriation processes, and she worked on and studied the process of the repatriation of the Sámi heritage collection, housed at the National Museum of Finland for more than a decade, and was part in organising Sámi museum Siida's new exhibition opened in June 2022. Moderated by Shikoh Shiraiwa, doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki and the University of Antwerp.

Credits: Produced by Mira Eskelinen for UrbanApa

Editing: Mira Eskelinen

Sound mixing: Timo Tikka

The episode was recorded in May 2023 as part of #StopHatredNow 2023.