Ex Situ - Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts

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Ex Situ is an open-source platform that maps over 145,000 cultural artifacts displaced from their countries of origin to major global museums. By aggregating data from institutions like the Ethnologisches Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, it visualizes the global scale of cultural displacement. Users can explore interactive maps to see which nations have lost the most heritage and which collections hold these items. This tool empowers researchers, activists, and the public to understand the complex history of colonial looting and advocate for the repatriation of cultural heritage.

"Ex Situ reveals the hidden geography of cultural loss by mapping 145,387 artifacts from 9 major collections, turning abstract historical injustice into a tangible, visual reality."