Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage, (Paperback)

from kant1066

While still conspicuously ignorant of the subjects, museum acquisitions, museology in general, and the debates concerning (re)appropriation of "culturally significant objects" all fascinate me. James Cuno manages to cover all these bases in this book whose major question is: Do modern states have...

from Oreillynsf

An excellent exploration of the issues dividing the world's great museums and the countries in which great works were taken. What right do museums have to retain treasures obtained illegally or extralegally in previous centuries? What about Egyptian treasures willed to the British Museum by the T...

from lizzybeans11

James Cuno understands Museums and that's important in a book like this. Ways of thinking about antiquities, value and culture will continually evolve. We may never come to a consensus on ownership and that's what keeps this industry on its toes.

from wealhtheowwylfing

Cuno argues that current laws and policies regarding archaeological finds are conducive only to nationalism, not education. "What, we wondered, is a national culture in this modern age, when the geographic extent of so many cultures does not coincide with national borders, and when national borde...