The Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam, photographed in September 2006. The institution found itself in a tough situation in 2014; it was exhibiting objects from Crimea when Russia annexed the region. Both Crimea and Ukraine demanded the 300-odd loaned objects be returned to them, prompting the museum to put everything in storage and take the matter to court. On June 9, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled the museum should give the material to Ukraine. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit the Amsterdam Municipal Department for the Preservation and Restoration of Historic Buildings (bMA).
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – The Supreme Court of the Netherlands on June 9 ordered that a Dutch museum’s trove of historical treasures from Crimea be sent to Ukraine, upholding a lower court ruling that the 300 artifacts are part of Ukraine’s cultural heritage. The collection of archaeological objects, some more than 2,000 years old, was on display at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam when Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, sparking a dispute over the repatriation of the borrowed pieces.
