Like Looted Art? In Italy, There’s Now a Museum for That

The Octagonal Hall exhibition space was designed to highlight Italy’s efforts, through patient diplomacy and court challenges, to repatriate valuable antiquities.

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General Roberto Riccardi, head of the Carabinieri unit for the protection of cultural heritage with archaeological artifacts displayed in the new Museum of Rescued Art at Rome, June 15, 2022. AP/Alessandra Tarantino

In Europe there is a museum for just about everything. The latest addition to the Continent’s vast cultural space comes with a unique twist: Italy’s new Museum of Rescued Art showcases ancient artifacts and works of art that were looted from the country but successfully recovered.

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