Have you been to the “Wonders of Mesopotamia” at the Melbourne Museum?
How was it?
Museum offers reward after artifact theft
A hefty reward is being offered for the return of two small archaeological pieces stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
The exact amount of the reward was not specified by the AXA Art insurance company but it was described as substantial.
An additional $10,000 is being offered to anyone who can identify a man caught on the museum’s closed-circuit security cameras.
Video shown to police and insurance investigators clearly shows the robber carrying out the theft in the museum gallery where the pieces were on display.
The pieces — an Assyrian bas-relief and a marble head dating from the Roman Empire — are together valued in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
They were taken last fall but the theft was not made public to protect a police investigation.
The museum says the theft is an isolated incident and that items are protected by security systems that include motion detectors.
Obelisk of Assyrian king Shalmaneser III
At the Iraqi National Museum, Baghdad.
"History’s first actual museum was established in the first half of the 6th century BC by King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon.
He called it “Wonder Cabinet of Mankind” and opened the facility to the public to enjoy artifacts dating back to as early as 2400 BC."
He called it “Wonder Cabinet of Mankind” and opened the facility to the public to enjoy artifacts dating back to as early as 2400 BC."
— http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/1466319
Recreated treasures stolen from the Iraqi National Museum in April 2003.
See more: http://blog.alrdesign.com/2007/12/istanbul-biennial-optimism-in-time-of.html
