February 20, 2010
Three different viewpoints on museums and restitution
The journal of the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, the Museological Review, has chosen to focus their most recent edition on the issues surrounding museums, deaccessioning & restitution.
In the first piece, Clare Blakey writes about some of the restitution demands made by Italy to the Getty Museum & the Metropolitan Museum in the USA.
The second article by Jennifer Jankauskas examines some of the ethical concerns which underpin the issue of deacccessioning in American Art Museums.
Finale, Dietrich Heißenbüttel takes a look at German art from the 1930s & 1940s, arguing for museums to take a different approach to restitution demands.
You can read the entire magazine online here.
- Call for papers – Museums and Restitution : October 26, 2009
- Italy gets serious over looted antiquities : July 12, 2007
- The plundering of the ancient world : December 5, 2008
- Chasing Aphrodite – Italy’s attempts to reclaim their cultural patrimony : February 1, 2012
- Recognising the illegality of looted artefacts : September 26, 2008
- Who owns antiquities : May 11, 2010
- Museum of Fine Arts deal with Italy : October 4, 2006
- Can we condemn contemporary looting without condemning colonial looting? : December 5, 2008