Our Legal Issues In Museum Administration

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Moon Rocks Return to Alaska after Theft in 1973 by Future "Deadliest Catch" Star

 Richard Nixon awards moon rocks to Alaskan Governor Keith Miller on  December 3, 1969.  The rocks disappeared in 1973 during a museum fire.  In 1969,...
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The Met Admission Fee Under Attack

On November 14, 2012, Theodore Grunewald and Patricia Nicholson, two members of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met), started legal action against the Museum...
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Art Theft in the Netherlands Raises Concerns About Museum Security

Last Tuesday, October 16, thieves made away with seven borrowed paintings from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam, including works by Picasso, Monet, Gauguin, Matisse, and...
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The Tale of a $7.00 Renoir Demonstrates the Surprises and Difficulties of Determining Good Title in the Art World

A small painting purchased for $7.00 at the Harpers Ferry Flea Market in Virginia may turn out to be a work of the Impressionist master...
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Britain Places Export Ban On Famous Picasso Painting In Effort To Keep Masterpiece In Britain

The British government has placed a temporary export ban on Pablo Picasso's painting Child With A Dove in the hope that funds can be raised...
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A Question of Standards: The Recent Antiquities Acquisitions of the Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art's two new acquisitions highlight an ongoing debate within the art community about the standards employed by cultural institutions when acquiring...
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Is Antiquities Collecting In or Out? It is "In" in Cleveland

Many experts and private individuals wish for collecting of antiquities to be a practice of the past, similar to smallpox. Heated disputes and "battles" over...
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Family of Holocaust Survivor Ordered to Return Artifact Taken from German Museum

In a reversal of the typical story involving looted art and the Holocaust, a state appellate court in Brooklyn, New York has ordered the family...
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The Mask, Egyptian Funerary and Known to Legally Disappear

US v. Mask of Ka-Nefer-Nefer is a case dealing with an Egyptian mask which may or may not have been sold or stolen sometime after it...
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Federal Court Dismisses Forfeiture Suit Over 3,200-year-old Mask of Ka-Nefer-Nefer

A decision in favor of the St. Louis Art Museum was recently handed down in federal district court in the dispute over one of its...
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Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act from the House to the Senate

On March 19, 2012,the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act. This legislation, introduced by Judiciary Committee member Rep....
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Germany Returns Ancient Afghan Statute

Last week, Germany’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs returned an ancient pre-Islamic sculpture looted during Afghanistan’s civil war to the National Museum in Kabul. The piece...
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