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Unesco planning virtual museum of stolen cultural artefacts
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“Behind every stolen work or fragment lies a piece of history, identity and humanity that has been wrenched from its custodians, rendered inaccessible to research, and now risks falling into oblivion,” said the Unesco director general, Audrey Azoulay.
Visitors will be able to navigate a succession of virtual spaces containing detailed 3D images of the artefacts, each accompanied by materials explaining their unique cultural significance including stories and testimonies from local communities.
According to the Antiquities Coalition, a US-based NGO, the most significant looted and stolen artefacts currently missing globally include a third century alabaster stone inscription taken from Awwam temple in Yemen between 2009 and 2011.
The architect has designed an extendable virtual “ramp”, contained within a globe connecting regions, countries, cultures and the 600 artefacts that will make up the opening collection, and has begun work with web developers to turn the concept into a digital reality.
Ottone said that while designing and building the virtual museum was a complex job, the most time-consuming task was creating scaleable 3D images of the artefacts, for many of which there is no physical record beyond a small black-and-white photo.
Unesco’s 1970 convention on prohibiting and preventing the illicit import, export and sale of cultural property urges signatory states to take measures to stop trafficking, which Interpol has said is increasingly the preserve of organised crime.
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