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06 July 2011 3:19 PM | No CommentsThe Institute of Museum Ethics provides free, confidential guidance on ethical matters. Please contact Yerkovsa@shu.edu.
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The Getty List: 10 Objects at the J. Paul Getty Museum that Turkey Says Were Looted
Among the dozens of allegedly looted antiquities that the government of Turkey is asking American museums to return are ten objects at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
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Prominent French Families Battle Over a Missing Monet
More than 70 years after it was plundered by the Nazis, a missing painting by Monet that depicts the shimmering blue rapids of the Creuse River has pitted two of the wealthiest and most prominent families in France against each other.
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Museum Haves and Have-Nots: How Acquisitions Funds Burnish Reputations
If Alex Nyerges, the director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, has an extra spring in his step lately, it may have something to do with the $70 million gift the museum is receiving from a trust created long ago.
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News: Nazi-Looted Posters Must Return to Sachs Heir, Court Rules
A German court ordered Berlin’s Deutsches Historisches Museum to return a collection of 4,259 posters looted by the Gestapo to the son of Hans Sachs, a Jewish dentist who fled Nazi Germany.
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Chasing Aphrodite: “Introducing WikiLoot: Your Chance to Fight the Illicit Antiquities Trade”
From Chasing Aphrodite: Today we’re pleased to announce — and to seek your help with — an exciting new project we’ve been tinkering with in private for some time. We’re calling it WikiLoot.
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Mythic Warrior Is Captive in Global Art Conflict
Posted on February 29, 2012 | No CommentsCambodia has asked the United States government for help in recovering a thousand-year-old statue of a mythic warrior that sits in limbo at Sotheby’s in New York and that some experts believe was looted amid the convulsions of the Vietnam War and the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge. -
Orchestrating Museum Row: Director Max Hollein Broadens Frankfurt’s Art Scene
Posted on February 27, 2012 | No CommentsOn any given day, you can spot 42-year-old Max Hollein dressed in a dark suit, pedaling his bike between the three Frankfurt museums he directs. -
Poland, museum tussle over fate of Auschwitz barracks on display in Washington
Posted on February 23, 2012 | No CommentsPolish and U.S. officials are engaged in intense talks to determine the fate of a sensitive object: a barrack that once housed doomed prisoners at the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp and is now on display at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
![The third round of the Delphi Forecasting Exercise, a joint project of the Center for the Future of Museums and the Institute of Museum Ethics, is beginning this week and you are welcome to join in.
In Rounds One and Two, we identified six issues to focus upon and in this round, we hope to learn [...]](http://museumethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Guy-214x160.jpg "Museum Ethics: Forecasting, Round Three!")
