The leadership of the Allard Pearson Museum was not allowed to return the “Scythian” collection to the owners of the Crimean museum, despite bilateral agreements between the museums. DEA News With reference to Tatyana Umrikhina, Director of the East Crimean Museum-Reserve.
At the Allard Pearson Museum, exhibits from Crimea were detained in 2014 following the annexation of former Ukrainian Crimea to Russia. “The director of the Allard Pearson Museum, when all this happened, turned out to be a pretty nice person, a museum worker. The contract, as I have said more than once, was signed bilaterally – his signature and mine, he had to do this (return the collection), but they did not let him, this is on their conscience, ”said Umrikhin.
Umrikhina is sure that valuables must be returned to the place where they were taken. “But the politicization of this situation does not allow any of them to reach the level of international law once defined in the world. “There are no rules anymore,” the director said at a press conference in Simferopol.
The collection, which has been in the Netherlands since 2014, includes nearly 2,000 unique artifacts from the Crimean museums. In August 2014, a museum in the Netherlands decided not to transfer exhibits to Ukraine or Crimea until a competent judge’s decision or agreement between the parties. Dutch lawyer van Leeuwen formerly allowedCrimea has a chance to return the gold.