Smuggled Ban Chiang loot raises questions on the ethics of art
The case of the smuggled Ban Chiang artefacts unearthed earlier this month in California has far-reaching consequences for museums and ...
Tag: museums
News reports and information about museums and museums studies related to Southeast Asian archaeology and cultural heritage. ICOM celebrates International Museum Day every year on May 18.
Ban Chiang case unsettles museums in US
The repercussions from the smuggled Ban Chiang artifacts case in California have got museums around the US keeping a close ...
Wednesday Rojak #20
In this edition of Rojak, we take a look at some of the cultural and archaeological heritage of Malaysia and ...
Jakarta museum theft: witness found dead
Investigations into the theft of artefacts from a Javanese museum takes a sinister turn when an expert witness is found ...
Vietnamese bronzes on tour in China
A collection of 197 bronze artefacts are on display in at the Beijing Museum in China, until the end of ...
UC Berkeley Art Museum’s stolen Ban Chiang artefacts
After four museums were investigated for holding looted artefacts - among them artefacts from Ban Chiang, Thailand - the UC ...
Ancient lamps on show
An exhibition on ancient lamps is on show at Ho Chi Minh city, with one of the oldest pieces coming ...
Southeast Asian artefacts turn up in Californian museum raid
Over in the US, four museums in California are being investigated over possession of artefacts that were allegedly illegally exported ...
Wednesday Rojak #18
In this edition of Rojak... Johny Setiawan takes a walk through the Indonesian National Museum and reflects on the shared ...
Museums expose treasures of the past
This feature in the Jakarta Post talks about the different museums in Jakarta - the National Museum, the Jakarta History ...
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