ABSTRACT
Multiculturalism has become, albeit belatedly in England, one of the buzzwords of the educational establishment. Some years on from the Swann Committee Report of 1985, optimistically entitled Education for All, and in the wake of the ensuing debates on the relative merits of an initiative that may be ‘multicultural’ but is not necessarily always actively ‘anti-racist’, the controversy continues.2 By April 1986 multiculturalism was also on the agenda of the museum ethnographic establishment, at the annual conference of the Museum Ethnographers Group (M.E.G.). In addition, specific proposals were advanced that a policy decision be made by the group, concerning dealings with the apartheid regime in South Africa.3
