February 04, 2006
Met Museum agrees to return stolen art to Italy
 The Metropolitan Museum of Art this week agreed to return to Italy a 2,500-year-old Etruscan vase, 15 pieces of Hellenistic silver, and four other vessels from the Classical era in exchange for long-term loans of other prized antiquities.
Under terms of the agreement, the Met only says it acquired the goods in good faith and did not know they had been illegally removed from Italy, whose law says any antiquities found there since 1939 are the property of the state.
For full coverage of the showdown, see Bloomberg News and the New York Times.
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February 4, 2006 08:43 PM in Museums, Sightsology, Upper East Side
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