Brooklyn Museum policy on Egyptian antiquities

CultureGrrl (Lee Rosenbaum)

Thanks very much to David Gill's Looting Matters blog for a post highlighting Lee Rosenbaum's post showing a Brooklyn Museum has a poster which states the Museum's policy with respect to the acquisition of Egytpian antiquities. Here's an extract, but see Lee Rosenbaum's post for full details:

How Do Museums Obtain the Antiquities They Exhibit?

Museums most often acquire antiquities as loans or gifts from generous individuals and foundations, through archaeological excavations, or by purchasing them.

Official archaeological excavations were a major source of antiquities for the Brooklyn Museum of Art in the first four decades of the last century. In the early years of Brooklyn's fieldwork in Egypt (1906-8), the Museum retained most of what it found. In the 1920s, the Egyptian government began exercising its right to keep most excavated material. Some antiquities, however, came to Brooklyn during the 1920's and 1930's through "archaeological division" ["partage"], a process that allowed the excavating institution to retain objects not claimed by the Egyptians.

There's a good photograph of the poster on the Iconoclasm blog (Troels Myrup).