Rooted in specific cases and in the author’s backgroundof working across the colonial divides of museums inEurope and in Aotearoa New Zealand, this chapterexplores the continued colonial and supremacistdefault position of ethnographic museum collectionsin Europe. Whereas in, for instance, Aotearoa NewZealand and the United States, a focused pressure byindigenous and other unrepresented andunderrepresented communities has ensured legislativeframeworks that recognise the expertise, authorityand rights to self-representation of the people withan original cultural connection to the givenobjects, museums holding global collections inEurope are still working in an ethical void whichpermits a continued denial and disavowal of theimplication of colonialism. Whiteness is, in JamesBaldwin’s term, a moral choice – and a choice stillpractised by museums, when they prefer tokenprojects of diversity and the delegitimisation andmarginalisation of alternative epistemologies andmuseological principles to a systematic process ofself-reflection and decolonisation, which activelyembraces present accountability for historic wrongs,and thereby enables the museum to address urgent,current global issues and conflicts.