The museum handles as much as $20,000 in cash daily in ticket sales, the prosecutor said.
The German newspaper Der Spiegel has published a devastating indictment of German governments' and museums' handling of an enormous amount of valuable art, jewelry, land and more looted by the Nazis, calling it "a moral disaster that began in the 1950s and continues to the present day".
Mr Fletcher, from the group Honour the Ancient Dead (Had), added: "While some museums handle remains well, other institutions don't even know what human remains they have in store.
How, for instance, should the museum handle the flood of information about the terrorists' private lives and plotting that the government's mammoth investigation was uncovering?
And possibly because so many of the newest pieces in this show have been in the collection only a short time -- a Matthew Barney is dated 2000 -- the museum is handling them with a certain caution, as if trying to figure out how to finesse their "postmodern" reputations.
(Beyer Blinder Belle, architects, oversaw the conversion from store to museum; Milton Glaser handled the graphics).
Most location requests at the museum are handled by special events, a revenue-generating department.
The first site established in 1993 could accommodate 70,000 visitors a year; the new museum can handle 250,000 people.
But here—and as with everything else in these galleries the museum has handled the presentation with sensitivity.When travelling in a counter-clockwise path from the main entrance, the layout is broadly chronological, with galleries arranged by region.
Now that each object has been carefully recorded with X-radiography, photography, and microscopy, and stabilized in appropriate storage conditions, it will be up to the recipient museum to handle the rest of the conservation work.
