Was once thrown out of Fethiye museum for being there.
On another occasion I asked if I could photograph both sides of the
hoard of
Athens New Styles in their
hoards cabinet but no impossible they indignantly and frostily announced, No way where they going to open the cabinet for publication, no they want that privilege in around another millennium or so-maybe.
Shouted at in Herakleon museum for photographing a woman with snakes goddess thing that parallels the more famous one. OK I know it said. NO PHOTOGRAPHS NOT PUBLISHED or
vice versa. And I shouted back IT's been excavated about 100 years ago get your **** fingers out.( amongst dozens of similar not published info).
The famous BM makes rules on
provenance for you....bought on
e-bay eh well we cannot tell you what it is UNESCO 1970, but I know they bought coins since that time so it means if they bought the coins to their own counter they would have to refuse thenselves. One description has which modern
hoard it came from ( second hand, of course).Meaning that I don't think that
Turkey sells it's patrimony to the BM-but you would think so.
Ask Balkan
Celts about
his enquiries into the whereabouts of much of the coin
collections in the Balkan museums and they are cold-war un-cooperative. The curators sold them on
e-bay! The museum of Northampton
had a masterpiece of ancient
Egyptian art. Since it wasn't a shoe or a last the curators hid it in the reserve then
had a vote and sold it. Fashions change I guess..
Museums are often the personal private fiefdom of the curators. Except the
Fitzwilliam and the Boston M F A and the
ANS who strangely have been most co-operative. Maybe they are not pressed for time like the other places or maybe-horror-care.
Coins are easily identifiable, whilst geological half excavated specimens are often not but that is how museums treat their "stock".
Minutes of photographing the coins and I will match the
Thompson obverse and
reverse where I can and do a write up without
weight or orientation, but no-unless it's been done already but they cannot be bothered to say.
Lazy ignorant B*****s.