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Resources for training and classroom use​​

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Training and preparation

Mainly for teachers, but also for secondary school students (e.g. to prepare for a presentation or an oral exam).

• UNESCO website pages on illicit trafficking in cultural property

• UNESCO online library

• UNESCO Database of National Cultural Heritage Laws, website

• ICOM International Concil of Museum Resources, website

• Observatory illicit traffic, website

• Trafficking Culture, website

• 50 years of the fight against the illicit trafficking of cultural goods, UNESCO, 2020, online publication, 49 pages

• Culture & development: stop the illicit traffic of cultural property, UNESCO, 2013, online publication, 47 pages

• Art & Crime. The fight against looters, forgers, and frauders in the high-stakes art world by Stefan Koldehoff, Tobias Timm, book

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Use with the students

Videos:​

• Heritage is identity, don’t steal it - Africa, South East Asia and East Asia, UNESCO, 2015, 00:00:38

• Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in the Art and Antiquities Markets,The Financial Action Task Force, 2023, 00:01:24

• The trail of stolen cultural objects - stop trafficking and save culture, UNESCO, 2019, 00:01:38

• EXCAVATING/LOOTING, it's not the same History!, Coproduction : musée d'Archéologie nationale, Inrap et Service du Patrimoine du ministère de la Culture. Réalisation : Edoardo Cecchin. 2022, without texte, 00:01:49

• End trafficking, save culture,UNESCO, 2017, 00:02:47

• Erasing Memory: The Cultural Destruction of Iraq, Deep Dish TV, 2018, 00:28  

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Other online resources:

• Europeana public gallery with 24 related works

• The stolen works of Johannes Vermeer, Google Art & Culture, interactive story

• Can You Identify These 4 Famous Stolen Artworks?, Google Art & Culture, interactive story

• ID-Art Interpol 

• Archaeologia Bulgarica Game, board game​​​​

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