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| Titel |
Whose cultural heritage? Crimean treasures at the crossroads of politics, law and ethics |
| Auteur |
E. Campfens |
| Plaats van uitgave |
Leiden |
| Jaar van uitgave |
2017
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Grotius centre working paper series
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017/068-PIL |
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20 p.
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kunstroof, teruggave van cultuurgoederen, wetgeving, juridische aspecten, internationaal recht, Oekraïne, Rusland, papers (vorm) |
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Samenvatting
Disputes concerning cultural heritage are often cause for vivid controversies, where issues of property and State sovereignty are intertwined with intangible aspects such as a culturalhistorical identity. A case which exemplifies this is the so-called 'Crimean Gold' case. At stake are 500-or-so archeological artefacts from the Crimean Peninsula that had been sent to Amsterdam on a short-term loan by four Crimean museums for the exhibition ‘Crimea: Gold and Secrets from the Black Sea’ at the Allard Pierson Museum. The period of this exhibition in 2014 coincided with a series of political events, resulting in the Russian annexation of Crimea and its secession in March 2014 from the Ukrainian State of which the Peninsula had been part since 1954. This secession, however, is not recognised by most other States, including the Netherlands. After the exhibition, the Allard Pierson was confronted with two competing claims to the objects: the Ukrainian State on the one hand and the Crimean museums on the other. Ukraine claims the objects as national patrimony and State property; the Crimean museums seek their return on the basis of guarantees contained in the loan agreement and the argument that Crimea is the 'genuine home' of the artefacts – having been discovered and preserved there over time. |
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