Because the theft involved museum-quality objects, it could result in a sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine as high as $250,000.
Director general Irina Bokova said the destruction involved museums, libraries and universities across Mosul.
The legislature's jurisdiction originally involved museums on public parkland, back in an era in which the state gave them operating money.
Interest in the historic and natural environment globally has involved museums in the preservation and interpretation of sites, monuments, and landscapes (as in the Slave House museum at Gorée Island, Senegal; see photograph ).
In terms of preserving traditional culture, there are projects involving museum exhibitions, and videotaping and recording oral histories.
In this paper we report on the successes and challenges of a creative project involving museums, schools and interactive technologies.
We need to encourage private individuals to get more actively involved in museum projects, to give and bequeath works of art, both historic and modern, and to support exhibitions.
It should be people who are involved with museums".
The couple also became involved with museums like the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where they served on boards, gave money and donated as well as loaned these institutions countless works of art.
Echoing more than a few other New Yorkers, Mr. Boym said he dreamed of a Cooper-Hewitt that would be as actively involved as museums used to be in the 1920's and 30's, not only organizing exhibitions but also design competitions, housing studies and design awards.
