Kek. They might as well have thrown them into the cage at the zoo.
Edit: They weren't stolen from the museum, nepal claims they are solen from them. Who know if that has any merit.
Some 24 objects in the Art Institute of Chicago’s Alsdorf collection were found to have incomplete provenance by today’s standards according to a national online registry of museum pieces, including four that were believed to have been stolen from Nepal and exported illegally. The Nepal Heritage Recovery Campaign is seeking repatriation of the artifacts but they believed that the Art Institute is stalling the process.
Kek. They might as well have thrown them into the cage at the zoo.
Edit: They weren't stolen from the museum, nepal claims they are solen from them. Who know if that has any merit.
>Some 24 objects in the Art Institute of Chicago’s Alsdorf collection were found to have incomplete provenance by today’s standards according to a national online registry of museum pieces, including four that were believed to have been stolen from Nepal and exported illegally. The Nepal Heritage Recovery Campaign is seeking repatriation of the artifacts but they believed that the Art Institute is stalling the process.
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