freed from their colonial context and made accessible to everyone artists nor all badri and john nikolai melas published this 3 d. scan of national t.v. online without the museum's permission. as long as to control not just the physical artifact but also the digital one you kind of control the narrative around it because then you can decide which research by example you give it to with the data in the public domain berlin state museums lost their monopoly over this cultural treasure at least digitally now anyone with a 3 d. printer can make their own net for t.v. one replica now lies buried in the egyptian desert as a kind of symbolic restitution. that actually matter when all of your material cut material objects of the culture are in another country and completely decontextualized and actually got there violently namely through colonialism so it totally doesn't matter where the object is who gets to tell the story the imperial museum is also seat the process of the transmission of the museum has begun now we gained 70 to tell the story publishing the data set on a public domain with an effor