The Dutch museum canceled Ukraine’s debt for the storage of “Scythian gold”
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The Archaeological Museum of the University of Amsterdam – the Allard Pearson Museum – canceled Ukraine’s debt for the storage of “Scythian gold” since 2014. Earlier it was reported that in order to return the objects of cultural heritage, Ukraine will have to pay almost 100,000 euros.
The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy and the Pearson Museum agreed to cancel the debt and return museum objects from four Crimean museum institutions.
The document to this effect was signed by Acting Minister of Culture Rostyslav Karandeev and Acting Director of the University Library of the University of Amsterdam Dr. Fred Virmen.
The ICIP reminded that the museum objects include the collections of the Crimean republican institutions “Tavrida Central Museum”, “Kerchen Historical-Cultural Reserve”, “Bakhchisarai Historical-Cultural Reserve” and the National Reserve “Khersones Tavriyskyi”. Since 2014, they have been exhibited at an exhibition in the Netherlands “Crimea is a golden island in the Black Sea”.
“We look forward to the return of the collections, one of which is known as “Scythian gold”, back home to Ukraine“, Karandeev noted.
| Karandeev with a signed document |
In 2013, the LVR-Landes Bonn State Museum opened the exhibition “Crimea – the Golden Island in the Black Sea”. It was created by the Ukrainian Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Institute of Ancient History of the University of Bonn. Four Crimean museums and the capital Museum of the History of Ukraine provided their collections for the exhibition.
In January 2014, the exhibition was packed and moved from Bonn to Amsterdam to the Allard Pearson private museum, where the exhibition continued. While it was being shown in the Netherlands, Russia was occupying Crimea. So after the exhibition ended, the question arose, where to send the exhibits: to Kyiv or to the occupied Crimea.
On December 14, 2016, the Amsterdam court decided to return the “Scythian gold” to Ukraine, but in January 2017, the Crimean museums began the process of appealing the decision. In 2021, the court in Amsterdam ruled in favor of Ukraine.
The Supreme Court of the Netherlands issued a final decision in this case on June 9, 2023 in favor of Ukraine.
Read also: Crimean victory: what the final court decision on “Scythian gold” means for Ukraine
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