The exhibition of Italian artworks, which were illegally exported from the country, will be open to public on 21 December in Roman Palazzo del Quirinale. The articles were given back by the American museums.
The presentation of the 69 exhibits took place on 17 December. Italian Ministry of Culture together with the Interpol managed to prove that several dozens of articles, which were the pride of the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum Of Art, the Boston Museum Of Fine Arts and the Getty Museum were excavated by the "black" archaeologists and were sold to museums by the "grey antiquarians". After the prolonged negotiations, broken by the threatening of a "cultural embargo", the museums agreed to hand over the artworks to Italy.


2007.12.19