How Crimean art rendering is a political decision – Elsevier

A number of pieces from the collection “The Crimea – Gold and Secrets Black Sea ‘- Photo: Reuters

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                             Anne-Marie Spermon
                         
                     
                 
 
                 
                     Aug 22, 2014

                 The Allard Pierson Museum has not dared to give to Russia or Ukraine. Return their collection Crimean gold Both countries claim that they are the rightful owner of the loaned art.
             

The museum itself dares despite lengthy own legal research on the issue, neither country wants to give the same and now await a court decision. Until then there is the museum preserves the Crimean gold itself. The Russian Ministry of Culture there is certainly not happy about it; the decision according to the Russians ‘unfair’

The main reason for the decision is that choosing a side -., so the return of the documents to Ukraine or Russia – “almost certainly would lead to a claim of the other party, the Allard Pierson Museum big risk. “

Annexation

Since the end of March this year, considering the borrowed Crimean art as a lead or rather, golden burden on the shoulders of the Amsterdam Allard Pierson Museum. Because who the pieces anyway? Here is a relatively simple answer seems to be:. Treasures of the museums in February this year lent to the Allard Pierson

Yet the legal status of the collection is unclear since the Crimea in March separated from Ukraine. Four of the Ukrainian museums that the pieces are on loan gave the Crimea. They want the gold objects and jewelry back and asked here soon after the annexation to.

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Ukraine also went in late March at the Allard Pierson the bell. They saw the claim of the documents by the Crimean museums as inpikactie their art by the Russians and their neighbors accused of trying to incorporate the collection. When the Hermitage

According to the Ukrainians the collection belongs to them because all loaned objects are state-owned. The Allard Pierson Museum is also in the loan agreement promised that the Netherlands will try to avoid ‘third parties’ documents claim.

But since the Crimea has endorsed that Russia gives the concept of “state property” not much clarity more . The fact that the Netherlands is not, but Russia does recognize the annexation, it does dispute any easier.

UNESCO

In addition, Russia will find that the Crimean museums no ‘others’ are. The Russians and the museums themselves, rely on numerous conventions and opinions of Unesco, the cultural agency of the United Nations. UNESCO argues generally that need to go to the museums where art comes

The collection, called back loaned pieces. “Crimea – Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea” is exhibited, about archaeological finds of the Crimean peninsula.

The International union of museums, ICOM, emphasizes in her Code of Ethics that museums are the cultural property of a country, region or nation must respect and have to return art to the original owners as possible

The political struggle is not over.; it is waiting for a judge the Allard Pierson Museum provides more insight

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