Complaints brought to the Museum Getty Museum Metropolitan Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Harvard University

marble slab, recently returned from Greece J. Paul Getty Museum
Source: artdaily.com

The Turkish government has asked the Getty Museum, and several other U.S. museums to return to the country of art, which, according to Turkish authorities were once illegally exported from it.

According Artdaily, the Turkish government contacted the Getty Museum, Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Cleveland, as well as a museum at Harvard University to present this agencies to prove that the number of items within their collection, was produced during illegal excavations in Turkey. The Turkish side has threatened to suspend cooperation with these institutions as long as they do not meet the requirements of his claims.

According to the Turkish authorities of antiquity, is now included in the aforesaid collection of museums, most likely were illegally mined in Turkey after 1906, when the country was introduced a law that was fixed for the state ownership of all archaeological finds.

Today, Turkey is actively trying to restore their cultural heritage objects in the country, as well as Italy and Greece. According to Murad's Wort (Murat Suslu), head of the Turkish authorities in charge of cultural heritage and museums in the affairs of Turkey is not a confrontation, but rather on the contrary, it tries to convey to American museums and their point of view to establish rapport with them.

None of the museums are not made public lists of disputed artifacts, but information on some of them previous still leaked to the press . A spokesman Ron Hartwig Getty (Ron Hartwig) indicated only that the museum continues to negotiate with the Turkish side, but declined to give their details.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source: artdaily.com , artinvestment.ru