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The Museum Association of Germany has released a manual for handling colonial heritage items
For four years, a working group of German specialists with the participation of international experts has been developing recommendations for museums on solving the problem of colonial heritage.
02 March 2021 13:18:22
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Artificial intelligence will be protecting The Vatican Apostolic Library from cyber-attacks
The digitised part of the Vatican's library, uploaded to the Internet for public use, is attacked by hackers an average of 100 times per month.
14 November 2020 13:10:00
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The sale of articles from an Israeli museum collection has been postponed to November 2020 due to public protests
The Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem has delayed a sale of 255 items from its collection, which was supposed to take place at Sotheby's auction house on October 27th, after a protest of public figures and the president of Israel.
29 October 2020 11:06:47
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Two ancient helmets and parts of a suit of armour were confiscated by Lithuanian customs officers
Three packages, prepared for shipment to France and the UK, were intercepted in the Vilnius airport on suspicion of contraband of cultural heritage items.
19 October 2020 15:42:53
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Bénédicte Savoy: Europe must return the cultural heritage of Africa
Brief overview of an interview with Bénédicte Savoy - a French modern art history professor and expert on looted colonial works of art, held by Wolfram Eilenberger.
18 October 2020 23:29:20
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The COVID-19 pandemic led to a sharp rise in the number of archaeological site lootings in Iraq
The economic crisis caused by coronavirus has forced citizens to start pillaging ancient heritage sites.
14 October 2020 21:23:51
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Over 350 restorers have appealed to Putin with a request to protect the Russian school of restoration from abolishment
The open letter to the president of the Russian Federation, signed by leading Russian experts and restorers, was published on October 6th, 2020.
12 October 2020 00:46:44
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The COVID-19 pandemic became the reason for a sharp rise in online sales on the art market
The Arts Economics conducted a global survey among almost 800 galleries in 60 countries and regions to determine exactly in what way the pandemic has affected the art market in the first half of 2020.
10 October 2020 16:54:10
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The crisis has forced the Royal Opera House to sell its David Hockney painting.
David Hockney's «Portrait of Sir David Webster», which belongs to the Royal Opera House, will be put up for sale at Christie's fall auction.
06 October 2020 12:38:36
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Over 400 archaeological finds were confiscated from an unauthorised digger in Poland
During the search of a 40-year-old man's house, police in the city of Andrychow in Poland in collaboration with the Krakow police discovered valuable cultural artifacts that were obtained by the man as a result of illegal archaeological excavations.
05 October 2020 23:24:36
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Crimes against cultural heritage amounted to only 0.2% of the total volume of contraband in the world in 2019
The annual report of the World Customs Organisation on transnational criminality shows that the number of violations associated with cultural heritage forms an insignificant part of the total number of crimes in the world.
04 October 2020 19:24:32
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The theft of an icon gifted by Putin to a monastery on the Valdai lake has been uncovered
Thanks to the collaborative actions of the MIA and the FSB, two suspects in the theft of an icon and other valuables from the Valdaisky Iversky Bogoroditsky Svyatoozersky Monastery were detained.
02 October 2020 12:10:04
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Part of a Sumerian wall plaque, evaluated at tens of thousands of pounds, will be returned to Iraq
The unique Sumerian artifact, dated 2400 BC, was recognised as looted and taken off sale at the British auction house. The seller relinquished claims of ownership for the rare piece, and in two months, during which the sculpture will be on display at the British Museum, it will be sent to its birthplace in Iraq.
30 September 2020 14:10:25
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Nationalmuseum in Sweden discovered a painting lost 74 years ago in Poland
A highly important priority for Nationalmuseum in Sweden is provenance – the collection is regularly revised with thorough provenance research for every artwork.
29 June 2020 00:38:21
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