Museum of Looted Antiquities
@MuseumofLoot
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@MuseumofLoot is a virtual gallery that collects, displays and studies looted antiquities repatriated since 1950 – and the trafficking networks behind them.
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Joined June 2024
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(3/3) This Skanda took a multi-stop journey to New York City, sold in 2000 for USD $1.5 million. Almost 9 years after Latchford's networks began to unravel and returns to Cambodia, Thailand, etc. began, a civil forfeiture occurred in 2021, and repatriation in 2023.
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RT @RickStHilaire: US v. Eldarir UPDATE: Defendant pled guilty in EDNY yesterday to 4 felony counts of smuggling hundreds of ancient artifa…
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RT @ChasingAphrodit: Must Listen: Ben Lewis unravels the tangled story of a Christian billionaire family, stolen relics, fake treasures and…
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RT @ATHARProject: Iraq repatriates trafficked artifacts from Japan & Switzerland "The recovered antiquities are not just pieces, but rathe…
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(2/2) It was sold in 2009 and repurchased in 2014 by Christies, voluntarily returned by Christies when given further evidence that Pandava belonged back home with its fellow temple guardians, all of which were returning from other institutions or auction houses at the time.
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(4/4) The Dancing Shiva scandal triggered a sweeping review of provenance problems in Australian museum collections, uncovering numerous other items tied to Kapoor. Even many years later, items that passed through Kapoor's network continue to surface worldwide.
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RT @yonas1402: Historic Manuscript Returned After 90 Years A manuscript taken from Ethiopia in 1935 by Gerarca Antonio Mancia has been ret…
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The museum had suspicions about their sketchy provenance. "You can see in the correspondence that they were concerned about the legality of this, but pretty much ignored it, put it to the side, and went ahead," said Natasha Reichle, associate curator of Southeast Asian art.
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Türkiye returns to Egypt 152 artifacts that were seized from "a foreign national who arrived in Türkiye in 1998 [and] had illegally obtained these items through online purchases and overseas travel."
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RT @OpenRestitution: For the past three years, we’ve been documenting restitution processes across the African continent. Our research has…
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EDIT: Our colleague Anna Zielinski pointed out that TEFAF is an art fair, not an auction. Sometimes artifacts displayed at TEFAF are later sold independently at auction.
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RT @itsartlaw: "Starting From Scratch: Provenance Research and Looted Art Databases" is a workshop led by Marc Masurovsky, co-founder of th…
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RT @LostArtsofNepal: International Conference on Recovery of Cultural Heritage @NHRCampaign @poetryinstone @artcrimeprof @DrEmilineSmith @…
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