UK’s Brighton & Hove Museums to return 45 artefacts to Botswana

Brighton & Hove Museums in southern England is returning 45 artefacts to Botswana, including clothing, accessories, and hunting implements collected by the Reverend William Charles Willoughby in the 1890s and given to Brighton Museum in 1899. The objects are due to be returned in April and will be housed at the Khama III Memorial Museum in Serowe, where they will form part of a permanent display scheduled to open on 27 May. Khama III Memorial Museum curator Gase Kediseng described the return as “an act of restoration,” and Brighton & Hove Museums assistant curator Sandra Bauzá Santos said she and colleague Hannah Mortell would travel to Serowe to support installation. The repatriation follows a partnership formed from 2019 to 2021 through the University of Sussex-led Making African Connections project, after which the Botswanan museum requested the objects’ return.

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