Politicized aesthetics: Questioning the neutrality of museum architecture and exhibition design

Despite three decades of postcolonial critique and repatriations, most collections displaced cultural objects are still hosted in the controversial architectural spaces Western museums whose design shifts from an allegedly neutral ‘white cube’ to questionable forms recontextualization. The contradiction between exhibited gallery space is primarily embodied by history host buildings, this setting, aesthetics architecture exhibition practices embed a subtle form neo-colonization reinforced rhetoric impossibility repatriation. Through critical review, paper discusses equivocal use both ‘neutral’ recontextualized for displaying African art/artifacts museums. I offer not solution but set derived principles through which we can start conversation on decolonized practices. If by-products specific cultural, political, socio-economic context, how could hosting respond – if response even possible.