ABSTRACT
Discussing the role of missionaries and their colonial collections requires navigating between being honest and avoiding hurt, between European ideals of Christianisation and civilisation and critical positions about destructive effects in the southern hemisphere. It is about the entanglement of the bringers of the Word with colonial administrators and entrepreneurs and about their relationship with the colonised. It is about the mass confiscation of religious objects and about the future of collections sent to Europe from afar.
