[CPProt.net] Combating Illicit Trade: Due Diligence Guidelines for Museums, Libraries and Archives on Collecting and Borrowing Cultural Material

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Combating Illicit Trade: Due Diligence Guidelines for Museums, Libraries and
Archives on Collecting and Borrowing Cultural Material 


Combating Illicit Trade: Due Diligence Guidelines for Museums, Libraries and
Archives on Collecting and Borrowing Cultural Material (PDF 418kb).

The guidelines aim to assist museums, libraries and archives when
considering the acquisition by purchase, gift or bequest of items of
cultural property.  They contain due diligence procedures to determine
whether a proposed acquisition or loan of cultural objects is ethically and
legally acceptable.

The guidelines were developed following discussions at the Seminar for
Museum Directors held at DCMS on 19 November 2003. The guidelines were
drafted by a sub-group of the Illicit trade Advisory Panel made up of
representatives from the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, the
Museums Association, the National Art Collections Fund, the British Museum,
the V&A, the Ashmolean Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Society of
Antiquaries of London, York Museums Trust, the Manchester Museum, the
British Library and the National Archives.

In addition, these guidelines have been endorsed by The Museums Association,
the National Art Collections Fund, The Museums, Libraries and Archives
Council (including the MLA/V&A Purchase Fund), The National Fund for
Acquisitions (Scotland) and the Society of Museum Archaeologists. The
funding bodies expect museums to adhere to these guidelines when applying
for funding for acquisitions.

These documents are available online in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format.
http://www.culture.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/721E9365-38BE-4AF8-BF8D-BE5B4BF8B21C/
0/CombatingIllicitTrade.pdf

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