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Italy has just opened the Museum of Rescued Art in Rome, which is dedicated to cultural heritage the country has reclaimed from abroad. The museum, housed within the National Roman Museum in the Baths of Diocletian, showcases dozens of relics that were stolen from cultural sites in Italy and trafficked to the US.
Their first exhibit features about 100 of the 260 Etruscan, Greek and Roman artefacts that are gradually being returned to Italy. All of the items were seized in the US and returned last year.
Dario Franceschini, Italy's minister of culture, said in a statement: “Stolen artworks and archaeological artefacts dispersed, sold, or illegally exported constitute a significant loss to a country’s cultural heritage and the expression of its historical memory and collective values, not to mention the identity of its people.”
They plan to stage rotating exhibitions of looted and stolen pieces that the country has reclaimed. A different set of pieces will go on view after the current show closes on 15 October.
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Italy opens museum of rescued art
Italy has just opened the Museum of Rescued Art in Rome, which is dedicated to cultural heritage the country has reclaimed from abroad. The museum, housed within the National Roman Museum in the Baths of Diocletian, showcases dozens of relics that were stolen from cultural sites in Italy and trafficked to the US.
Their first exhibit features about 100 of the 260 Etruscan, Greek and Roman artefacts that are gradually being returned to Italy. All of the items were seized in the US and returned last year.
Dario Franceschini, Italy's minister of culture, said in a statement: “Stolen artworks and archaeological artefacts dispersed, sold, or illegally exported constitute a significant loss to a country’s cultural heritage and the expression of its historical memory and collective values, not to mention the identity of its people.”
They plan to stage rotating exhibitions of looted and stolen pieces that the country has reclaimed. A different set of pieces will go on view after the current show closes on 15 October.
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