by Jon Lackman | 8 March 2006 | Ancient, Museums
From the Chicago Tribune: “The increasingly fractious dispute between [Yale] and Peru, involving at least 250 artifacts, is one among many in a recent upsurge of ownership controversies between U.S. museums and foreign governments.” As a result, museums are “devoting more staff and money to researching the objects in their collections with uncertain provenance, or ownership history, said [Mary Sue Sweeney] Price,” the director of the Newark Museum and president of the Association of Art Museum Directors. “The result will be that museums and art historians will know more about the objects.”
