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The Getty Museum Repatriation Cases

The J. Paul Getty Museum, the wealthiest art institution in the world, was forced to return around 40 looted antiquities to Italy and Greece after investigators traced them to illicit excavations — and to put its own curator on trial.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Encyclopedic and immense, the Met has in recent decades faced sustained scrutiny over the provenance of antiquities in its collection, returning looted objects to Italy, Greece, Cambodia, and beyond.

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