by Administrator | Aug 3, 2021 | Cultural Heritage, Legal Issues for Museums
There are those that say there is no such thing as bad publicity. We beg to differ. Once again Hobby Lobby is in the news with another example of how the company once again purchased and displayed items of questionable origin in its museum. This time it is in...
by Administrator | Jun 15, 2021 | Legal Issues for Museums
Once again, Hobby Lobby and its Museum of the Bible is in the news. This time, Hobby Lobby is suing former Oxford University Dirk Obbink over Obbink’s alleged sale of stolen papyri to the Museum. According to the complaint, Hobby Lobby paid Obbink $7 million US...
by Administrator | Feb 9, 2021 | Cultural Heritage, Legal Issues for Museums
Craft retailer Hobby Lobby has amended its complaint against Christie’s to include the alleged prior owner of a cuneiform tablet dating from approximately 1600 BCE and bearing an inscription with a portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh. In May of last year, Hobby Lobby...
by Administrator | Sep 15, 2020 | Cultural Heritage
The Iraqi government is negotiating with the Museum of the Bible for the return of thousands of Iraqi antiquities that were brought into the United States by the Green family—antiquities whose provenance is shaky at best. In 2017, the United States...
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