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True met Hecht while working at the MFA’s department of classical art, before she attended Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In the same year that True was charged, the MFA was accused of possessing looted artifacts through dealings with Hecht, whom Italian investigators suspected of selling or giving the museum more than 1,000 artifacts, all possibly stolen...
...September 2006, after negotiations between the Italian government and the MFA, the museum transferred possession of 13 objects back to Italy. In return, the Italian government promised future collaborative efforts with the museum, including loans of cultural significance. The colossal "Eirene" is the first of these loans, and a fitting gesture: Eirene is the goddess of peace...
...present, Ebbinghaus, among others, is considering alternatives to acquiring objects, such as exchanges and long-term loans. These agreements would resemble those made by the MFA and Princeton. But repatriation poses a problem when museums want to examine artifacts in-depth and on a long-term basis, as researchers may have less freedom to engage with items on loan...
...lies in replacing the current minefield of export regulations with another system: partage, a process by which institutions that sponsor excavations receive a share of the finds. In the first half of the 20th century, the archeological museums of universities like Yale and Harvard and art museums like the MFA used partage to acquire their most important pieces. In the 1920s and 1930s, a team from Harvard excavated a site called Nuzi in modern Iraq, finding thousands of cuneiform tablets that detailed daily life. These remain on display in Harvard’s Semitic Museum...
They may not be the Met, the MFA, or the Getty, but according to Cuno, university museums should follow standards similar to those of the art world giants in order to build strong collections. "The enlightenment principles of the encyclopedic museum—the representation of the world’s artistic legacy under one roof as a means of encouraging greater understanding of the world and the interrelatedness of cultures—is always a good thing," Cuno writes. In the eyes of advocates like Cuno and Ebbinghaus, university museums in particular now have a massive task laid...