A Museum at Risk of Going Dark The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is, on paper, one of the most successful cultural institutions in Europe. With millions of visitors a year and a self-financing rate that most museums can only dream of (around 85% of its income is generated internally), you would think it is comfortably solvent. But behind the sunflower prints and café lattes lies a problem no gift shop can solve: the building […]
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The New French Law on Restitution France now stands at the edge of an unfamiliar, but long-awaited, horizon. In July 2025, Culture Minister Rachida Dati introduced a draft law that would, if passed, make it far easier for looted or misappropriated cultural artifacts to be returned to their countries of origin. For the first time, restitution would not require the exhausting ritual of special parliamentary legislation for each object. Instead, a decree approved by the […]
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