The Dark Secrets of Museum Exhibits: Theft, Forgery, and Repatriation

🎙️ How Much Museum Art Was Legally Acquired? 🤔 Join us for an eye-opening conversation with Prof. Erin Thompson — the world’s first professor of Art Crime at John Jay College (CUNY). We explore: – How museums acquire and label stolen artifacts – The secret world of forgery, smuggling & sacred object theft – Museum cover-ups and colonial legacies – The ethics of repatriation and controversial monuments 💬 Prof. Thompson (@artcrimeprof) is a leading voice in museum ethics and cultural heritage protection. She’s worked on major repatriation cases and helped expose how looted objects make their way into museum collections. 📚 Her book Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments dives into the politics of monuments and the fight over their removal. 🔔

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The Dark Secrets of Museum Exhibits: Theft, Forgery, and Repatriation is an episode from The ਸੋਚ (Sōch) Podcast by Ramblings of a Sikh.

This episode is 01:11:23 long.

This episode was published on Jun 5, 2025.

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