Efforts to Protect Cultural Property Worldwide
The United States and other countries
have initiated a number of actions and meetings to help protect the world's
cultural heritage. Many archaeological and ethnological objects which have
entered the United States illegally, have been recovered by the U.S. Customs
Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Working with other local
and international agencies, such as Interpol, law enforcement personnel
from these agencies have been assisted immeasurably when stolen objects
are registered and documented. Special initiatives like the Object ID initiative
sponsored by the Getty Art Information Network describe the minimal level
of documentation necessary to identify a registered object.
Noted here are a number of governmental
and non-governmental organizations and private museum organizations in
the United States and abroad which offer assistance, such as training
in conservation and record keeping to help protect important archaeological
sites and objects.
Information
on Stolen and Looted Art
- Art
Loss Register
666 Fifth Avenue, 21st Floor
New York, NY 10103
Telephone: (212) 262-4831
Fax: (212) 262-4838
- ICOM
Red List
Maison de l'UNESCO
1, rue Miollis 75732
Paris Cedex 15 France
Telephone: 33 1 47 34 05 00
Fax: 33 1 43 06 78 62
Email: secretariat@icom.org
- Interpol
General Secretariat
Stolen Works of Art
200, quai Charles de Gaulle
69006 Lyon France
Fax: 33 4 72 44 71 63
Email: woa@interpol.int
U.S. Law
Enforcement Agencies
International
Law Enforcement Agencies
Documentation
Conservation
and Preservation
- Ambassador's
Fund for Cultural Preservation
United States Department of State
301 4th St., SW, Room 334
Washington, DC 20547
Telephone: (202) 619-6612
Fax: (202) 260-4893
Email: afcp@pd.state.gov
- Getty
Conservation Institute
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 700
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1684
Telephone: (310) 440-7325
Fax: (310) 440-7702
- International
Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural
Property (ICCROM)
Via di San Michele 13
I-00153 Rome
Italy
Telephone: 39 6 585 531
Fax: 39 6 5855 3349
- International
Council on Monuments and Sites/Conseil International des Monuments et
des Sites (ICOMOS)
49-51, rue de la Federation
75015 Paris
France
Telephone: 33 1 45 67 67 70
Fax: 33 1 45 66 06 22
- UNESCO
Cultural Heritage Program
1, rue Miollis
75732 Paris, Cedex 15
France
Telephone: 33 1 45 68 37 56
Fax: 33 1 45 68 55 96
- UNESCO
World Heritage Centre
7, place de Fontenoy
75352 Paris 07 SP
France
Telephone: 33 1 45 68 18 89
Fax: 33 1 45 68 55 70
- World
Bank Culture in Sustainable Development
Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433
Telephone: (202) 473-9307
Fax: (202) 676-9373
- World
Monuments Fund
949 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10028
Telephone: (212) 517-9367
Fax: (212) 517-9494
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