If you want to sink your teeth into a deep, satisfying book that takes a careful and analytical look at museums and antiquities theft, Theft By Chocolate is not for you.
If you are involved with a mid-sized or small museum, risk management likely doesn’t occupy a lot of your time. Everyday tasks like handling your flooded email inbox, making sure the heat and A/C work, and updating the website and Facebook page occupy all your attention.
Eden Burgess will discuss “Legal Issues: Copyright — Are You Breaking the Law?” at the American Cultural Resources Association’s 18th Annual Conference in Seattle on September 7.
As the first day of summer approaches, U.S. museums are dealing with art and antiquity challenges on several fronts. Issues have arisen with Iraq, Turkey and Russia, all of which seek to repatriate or protect their art and cultural heritage, albeit for very different reasons and by different methods.
New York’s Supreme Court Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department ruled on May 30 that the family of Riven Flamenbaum, a Holocaust survivor who inexplicably left Germany after the War with an invaluable gold tablet about the size of a Post-It Note, must return the object to the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin.