Museums

Reactions to “The Great Giveback”

Reactions to “The Great Giveback”

0 on February 6, 2013, 11:00 am / in archaeology law, Art Law, egypt, Elgin Marbles, Historic Preservation, Looting, Museums

Senior editor at the New York Review of Books, Hugh Eakin, recently published an opinion piece, “The Great Giveback,” in [...]

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An Update on Turkey’s Cultural War

An Update on Turkey’s Cultural War

0 on January 30, 2013, 9:00 am / in archaeology law, Art Authenticity, France, Looting, Museums, Recovery, Repatriation, Turkey

Turkey is currently seeking the return of thousands of antiquities which they believe are rightfully theirs. In this pursuit, Turkish [...]

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Problems Arise as The Getty Attempts to Verify Antiquities

Problems Arise as The Getty Attempts to Verify Antiquities

0 on January 29, 2013, 9:00 am / in Art Authenticity, Art Heists, Italy, Looting, Museums, Repatriation

In a recent effort to become more transparent, the Getty is currently attempting to verify the origins of the antiquities [...]

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Russia Lists Historic Mansions for Public Auction

Russia Lists Historic Mansions for Public Auction

0 on January 22, 2013, 9:00 am / in archaeology law, Auction Houses, cultural property law, Museums, Preservation Initiatives, Russia

There are currently 150,000 architectural monuments in Russia. According to Russian culture minister Vladimir Medinsky, a majority of them are [...]

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Head of Hades to be Returned to Sicily

Head of Hades to be Returned to Sicily

1 on January 15, 2013, 9:00 am / in archaeology law, Greece, Looting, Museums, Repatriation

The Getty museum has recently announced that it has decided to voluntarily return a terracotta head to the Museo Archeologico [...]

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Smuggled Tyrannosaurus Skeleton at Auction

Smuggled Tyrannosaurus Skeleton at Auction

4 on January 2, 2013, 9:00 am / in archaeology law, Auction Houses, Crime, Dinosaurs, Museums

Described as “a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton” that “ruled the food chain of the ancient food plains that are today’s Gobi [...]

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Turkey Employs Human Rights Law in Assault on British Museum

Turkey Employs Human Rights Law in Assault on British Museum

12 on December 12, 2012, 9:00 am / in archaeology law, Museums

In January, Turkey will be turning to human rights law in a novel claim to repatriate sculptures currently housed in [...]

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The UK’s Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS)

The UK’s Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS)

17 on December 5, 2012, 9:00 am / in archaeology law, Museums, Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS)

When items are discovered in England and Whales, the State has no claim to them unless they are classified as [...]

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Artifacts From Greek Heist Recovered, But Greek Museums Still in Danger

Artifacts From Greek Heist Recovered, But Greek Museums Still in Danger

0 on November 28, 2012, 9:00 am / in archaeology law, Museums

In a mid-February armed robbery, two masked men stole 76 artifacts from the Museum of the History of the Olympic [...]

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Multi-Decade Smuggling Operation Exposed

Multi-Decade Smuggling Operation Exposed

1 on November 14, 2012, 9:00 am / in archaeology law, Museums

In 2007, Indian authorities detained a consignment en route to the United States. The authorities stopped the consignment and found [...]

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