Apology for Aboriginal art and cultural thefts to Tasmanian Indigenous communities | ABC News

Two of Tasmania’s oldest institutions have apologised to the state’s Aboriginal community for “nearly 200 years of practices were morally wrong”.

The apology by the Royal Society of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) was partly brought about because of the decades-long battle by traditional owners to get 14,000-year-old ancient rock art out of museum collections and back to it’s sacred home at Preminghana in the state’s far north-west.

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