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Article: British Museum barred from returning art.(Arts & Entertainment)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- May 28, 2005
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Byline: MEGAN MURPHY Bloomberg News
The British Museum, which holds antiquities including the Rosetta Stone and sculptures from Athens' Parthenon, is barred from returning art looted by the Nazis to the heirs of a Jewish collector, a London court ruled.
The museum can't override a law blocking it from disposing of pieces in its collection, the U.K. High Court said Friday. Peter Goldsmith, Britain's attorney general, had asked the court to determine whether the institute's trustees could be permitted to return four drawings it suspects were stolen from Czech doctor Arthur Feldmann in 1939 on the grounds of "moral obligation."
"No moral obligation can justify a ...