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Strategic Solutions To Museum Repatriation Issues: Past, Present, Future, Damiano N. Spano
Strategic Solutions To Museum Repatriation Issues: Past, Present, Future, Damiano N. Spano
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
Over the last twenty years, international treaties and resolutions have attempted to define cultural property and reach a unilateral consensus regarding the return of these objects. The demand for repatriation has become louder and more common as claims have forced museums to find strategic solutions to reparation issues when the care and safety of objects are at risk. The history of strategic solutions to reparation is not one solely based in the contemporary, it stretches to the past, is being written today, and will remain an issue of the future. Strategic solutions have benefited both the museum and the claimant …