“Since our collections are inalienable, it will be long and complicated to have to make a special law for every return,” French Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak told Le Monde newspaper.
Three laws dealing with the return of foreign cultural property, human remains and works looted by the Nazis will be submitted to the French parliament in 2023, the government announced today.
A report on the preparation of a bill, which will define “the principle and criteria for the return” of foreign works, is to be tabled in the coming weeks, the culture ministry told AFP today.
This report will be written by the former director of the Louvre museum, Jean-Luc Martinet, who was appointed in 2021 as ambassador for heritage.
“Since our collections are inalienable, it will be long and complicated to have to make a special law for every return,” French Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak told Le Monde newspaper.
The AFP points out that the return of foreign goods is a very sensitive issue. He adds that the pressure for such returns has increased in recent years for Western museums to return works to their country of origin and refers in this context to Greece’s request for the return of the sculptures of the Parthenon frieze, which are exhibited in the British Museum in London.
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