Piotrovsky: Exhibits from the “Scythian Gold” collection should be returned to the museums of Crimea
st. Petersburg, November 15 – RIA Novosti. General Director of the State Hermitage Museum Mikhail Piotrovsky believes that exhibits from the Scythian Gold collection, which have been in the Netherlands since 2014, should be fairly returned to the museums of Crimea.
“This is a very important principle that we advocate – where (the artifacts) are located and the museum that is there – must have them. That’s our position with regard to the museums of Crimea, whose belongings are detained in the Netherlands,” the journalists said.
The Scythian Gold collection includes unique artifacts from the Eastern Crimean Museum-Reserve, the Taurida Central Museum, the Bakhchisarai Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve and the Tauric Chersonese Museum-Reserve. The nearly 2,000-piece collection was taken to an exhibition at the Allard Pearson Museum in Amsterdam in early February 2014, before Crimea was reunified with Russia. In August 2014, a museum in the Netherlands decided not to transfer exhibits to Ukraine or Crimea until a competent judge’s decision or agreement between the parties.
The Amsterdam Court of Appeals ruled last October that the collection should be transferred to Ukraine. The Crimean Museums appealed against this decision to the Dutch Supreme Court.
Source: Ria
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