Showing posts with label Switzerland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Switzerland. Show all posts
September 15, 2026

Not the First: Another Merrin-Linked Antiquity Is Repatriated

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Today, at a ceremony attended by Bundesamt für Kultur BAK, Federal Councillor Elisabeth Baume-Schneider, head of Switzeland's Federal De...
November 22, 2025

Gold Coin Heist in Lausanne Highlights Growing Trend of Melt-Value Museum Theft

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In another brazen opening hours robbery in Switzerland, the Musée romain de Lausanne Vidy, was targeted on Tuesday evening just before closi...
May 14, 2025

The Bongoking and the brushstroke: How a drug lord’s alleged art deal links a crime syndicate to a stolen masterpiece

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In the tangled web of organised crime, illicit art dealings can sometimes serve as both currency and collateral.  The ongoing trial of Flor ...
February 8, 2024

Reclaimed Heritage: A Cambodian Buddha Goes Home

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Seized by Swiss authorities in the Canton of Basel 10 years ago, this 18th or19th century (Khmer empire) Buddha, seated in vajraparyankasana...
February 10, 2023

A 2,500-year-old sculpture from the monumental ruins of Chavín de Huantar is returned to the Peruvian ambassador

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The site of Chavín de Huantar What we know about the monumental ruins of Chavín de Huantar , thousands of feet up in the Cordillera Blanca ,...
October 26, 2019

Conference Save the Date: Building a Responsible Art Market

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Event:  Building a Responsible Art Market Location:  Geneva, Switzerland Date: Saturday 30 January 2020 The Responsible Art Market (R...
October 8, 2018

Conference: Third All Art and Cultural Heritage Law Conference on “National Treasures: Limits to Private Property and Cross-Border Movements”

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The 3rd All Art and Cultural Heritage Law Conference on “National Treasures: Limits to Private Property and Cross-Border Movements”  wi...
October 10, 2017

Conference - Radiocarbon dating and protection of cultural heritage - C14 Meeting

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Organised by: ETH Zurich and University of Geneva, with a support of the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Commission for UN...
March 24, 2017

Repatriation: Roman sarcophagus held at Swiss Freeport finally clears last hurdle for its return to Turkey

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Image taken September 23, 2015 by the Office of the Attorney General of the Canton of Geneva - Image Credit: AFP In December 2010, Swi...
June 15, 2015

Pissaro's "Rue Saint-Honore in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain" and the laws applied to art restitution

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by Judge Arthur Tompkins In 1897 Camille Pissarro painted  Rue Saint-Honore in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain .  Forty years later, in ...