Quoting from PSnewsonline Edition Number 473. Updated Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Museum protects exhibits
The National Museum of Australia (NMA) has been given the green light for the next five years as an approved borrowing institution under the Protection of Cultural Objects on Loan Scheme.
Minister for the Arts, Senator George Brandis said the NMA was only the second institution to be approved under the Scheme, which provided legal protection from seizure and suit for cultural objects on loan for temporary public exhibition in Australia.
He said the NMA had demonstrated it possessed the capacity, expertise and resources to uphold the ethical and legal responsibilities established by the Scheme, including consultation with communities on cultural objects proposed for loan.
Official status to protect displays
Senator Brandis said the institution also had the capacity to undertake provenance checking and due-diligence research to the highest international standards.
“The Museum is now able to offer to international lenders the significant legal protection provided by the Scheme including for its forthcoming exhibition Encounters: Revealing stories behind Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander objects from the British Museum, the first-ever collaboration with the British Museum,” Senator Brandis said.
He said the Exhibition would provide Australians with a rare opportunity to view more than 150 Indigenous objects, most of which had not been seen in Australia since they were first acquired in contacts between early settlers and first Australians.
The Protection of Cultural Objects on Loan Scheme is open for applications, and more information can be found on the Ministry for the Arts website at this PS News link. http://arts.gov.au/collections/protection-of-loans
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