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4. Annex II,
5. Annex III.
6. Barbara Plankensteiner (Ed), Benin Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from
Nigeria, Snoeck, 2007.
7. Declaration on the Value and Importance of Universal Museums. (2002).
http://www.clevelandart.org/museum/info/CMA206_Mar7_03.pdf The Declaration was
signed in December 2002 by 18 major museums that declared their intention not
to return the cultural artefacts from Greece ,African and Asian States that have
been in Western museum over a long period.
K.Opoku, “Is the Declaration on the value and Importance of the“universal
museums” now worthless Comments on imperialist Museology.
http://www.modernghana.com
8. Readers may wish to consult a very useful note on the Holocaust Restitution
Bill by Philip Ward.
http://www.parliament.uk/briefingpapers/commons/lib/research/briefings/snha-
05090.pdf
The Art Newspaper wrote:
“The government’s major concern about Mr Dismore’s Private Members’ Bill is
that amendments may be put to extend its scope. In particular, it will inevitably
be seized upon by parliamentarians who are campaigning for the return of the
Parthenon Marbles to Athens. Similar moves might be made by those calling for
the return of the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, the Rosetta Stone to Egypt or the
Lewis Chessmen to Scotland. The DCMS is therefore expected to press for a
clear wording that would preclude deaccessioning being extended beyond the
1933-45 period.”
UK parliament closer to passing bill allowing museums to deaccession Nazilooted
art Legislation expected to be limited to 1933-1945 only
http://www.theartnewspaper
Andrew Dismore, the Labour MP for Hendon who introduced the Bill stated
during debate in the Second Reading of the Holocaust (Stolen Art) Restitution
Bill:
“Above all, the Bill is strictly limited as to time, place and perpetrator of the
original deprivation of the object from its lawful owner. It is not a Trojan horse
for the Parthenon sculptures—that is my next Bill—or for any other artworks or
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