Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World (Hardcover) by Sharon Waxman

from Lettypearl

This is a though-provoking look at large encyclopedic museums, their practices in the past and present in dealing with antiquities from across the globe. As the author states, the book raises more questions than answers about cultural patrimony, looting, restitution, who should keep antiquities, ...

from lizzybeans11

This is one of those books that you have to read if you're into Museum Ethics. Some of the well-known cases of cultural property contention are highlighted and they are each unique situations. Cultural property ownership will never be solved and museums will continually evolve to new schools of t...

from ValerieAndBooks

A bust of Nefertiti graces the cover of my copy of "Loot" by Sharon Waxman. Some people (not me) have been lucky to see this bust in real life, but most have seen this iconic Nefertiti only in pictures. Where is this bust? Not in Egypt, as you might think. It's actually in a museum in Berlin. Wax...

from conformer

An eye-opening series of accounts of the secret history of your favorite museum installations. In addition to tracing the path that antiquities take from their countries of origin to the national institutions that house them, Waxman continually raises and reraises the ethical question of the orga...

from ValerieAndBooks

A bust of Nefertiti graces the cover of my copy of "Loot" by Sharon Waxman. Some people (not me) have been lucky to see this bust in real life, but most have seen this iconic Nefertiti only in pictures. Where is this bust? Not in Egypt, as you might think. It's actually in a museum in Berlin. Wax...