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Bangkok und Thailand Museum - eine Übersicht
A suspected smuggler allegedly boasted he had more items from the Ban Chiang area than Thailand itself. Government agents raided many museums in California on Friday in search of antiquities believed to have been illegally obtained and smuggled into the US from Thailand and China, Southeast countries including Thailand, the Guardian online reported. Four museums in southern California were involved: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena and the Mingei International Museum in San Diego. Authorities said one scheme involved the owner of a Los Angeles art gallery who worked with a smuggler over five years to import artefacts from Thailand and China, offering them as charitable contributions and then attempting to claim the donations as tax write-offs by boosting their value. In some cases, museum officials initially questioned how the artefacts were obtained but eventually accepted them. According to officials, some artefacts passed through US customs because they had "Made in Thailand" labels affixed to them, making it appear they were replicas, the online reported. Michael Govan, director and chief executive officer of LACMA, estimated that about 60 items donated to the museum over the past decade have come under suspicion. "They were seemingly quite regular objects to be gifted," Govan said, adding that the museum is cooperating with the investigation. "They came from sources who were members of the museum for many years and regular donors, so no, there was no reason for the museum to know ahead of time." The warrants stem from an undercover investigation by a National Park Service special agent who posed as a collector. The agent targeted Robert Olson, who is alleged to be a smuggler, and Jonathan Markell, who co-owns an Asian art gallery in Los Angeles with his wife. Olson, 79, allegedly boasted to the agent he had more items from the Ban Chiang area than Thailand itself, according to an affidavit. Court documents said Olson, Markell and the agent met more than a dozen times and regularly emailed and called one another about the "sale, importation, and donation of stolen archaeological resources from China and Thailand and antiquities illegally imported from Burma." Some of the calls and meetings were recorded, the warrants said. The documents quoted Markell as saying that "people who had been caught had to have done something stupid." The investigation is the latest public relations blow for US museums that have been accused by foreign governments of housing treasures stolen from their countries. Italy has been negotiating with various institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, to have various antiquities returned. Authorities said no arrests had been made and no charges had been filed.
Die seit vielen Jahrzehnten in den Depoträumen der Wiener Hofburg vor den Augen der Öffentlichkeit verborgenen Sammlungen aus dem alten Königreich Siam werden zur Zeit für ein Projekt aufbereitet, mit dem diese Sammlungsbestände erstmals im Internet gezeigt werden. Das Projekt trägt den Namen Thai Cultural Heritage in Austria und ist bereits in seiner Startphase online zugänglich. Es ist ein interaktives Projekt, bei dem jeder, der Wissen über die historisch-ethnographischen Gegenstände beitragen kann, dazu eingeladen ist, Wissen einzubringen.
Das dreistöckige ethnologische Museum (gegründet 1965 und betrieben vom Hilltribe Research Institute) befindet sich auf dem Gelände des Chiang Mai Universitäts-Campus. Es gibt einen interessanten Einblick in das Leben der ethnischen Minderheiten in Nordthailand. Die Sammlungen des Museums illustrieren die materielle Kultur von 10 "Bergstämmen", nämlich der Hmong, Karen, Mien, Akha, Lisu, Lahu, Lua, Thin, Khamu und Mlabri. Die Themen der einzelnen Ausstellungsräume umfassen die Lebensart und Traditionen, Religion und das Schulsystem - wobei ausschließlich Objekte und Materialien der ethnischen Gruppen verwendet werden. Der Besuch dieses Museums ist sowohl als Einführung für jene von Interesse, welche die Minderheiten in den Bergen besuchen wollen, als auch als kleiner Ersatz für alle anderen, die nicht in die Bergen gehen wollen. 1.Stock (Erdgeschoß): Ausstellung von Textilien, landwirtschaftlichen Geräten, Musikinstrumenten und der Handwerkskunst der größten ethnischen Gruppen. Außergewöhnliche Fotos und engliche Übersetzungen von Lyrik der Ethnien sind Teil der Ausstellungsdekoration. 2.Stock: Ausstellungen über staatliche Projekte zur Verbesseung des Lebensstandards der "Bergstämme". 3.Stock: Ausstellung über die verschiedenen Projekte der königlichen Familie. Öffnungszeiten: Mo-Fr 8:30-12:00 und von 13:00-16:30. Tel: (66 53) 210 872 / 05322-1933. Eintritt: frei Adresse: Ratchamangkla Park, Chotana Road, Muang District, Chiang Mai 50180
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