The V&A Museum
(Picture: Alamy Stock Photo)V&A DIRECTOR Tristram Hunt has put himself at odds with the Government by signalling the museum will give back looted Asante gold treasures to Ghana.
Hunt visited Ghana this summer, meeting officials. He writes in the V&A’s latest annual review that he planning long-term loans of the treasures to begin with. The pieces were seized from the town of Kumasi during a British raid in 1874.
