Online Resources

For the American Association of Museums' website, which publishes the AAM's Guidelines Concerning the Unlawful Appropriation of Objects During the Nazi Era, issued November 1999, and amended April 2001; the AAM's Recommended Procedures for Providing Information to the Public about Objects Transferred in Europe During the Nazi Era; the Report of the Association of Art Museum Directors Task Force on the Looting of Art During the Nazi/World War II Era; and information on other museum sites, see http://www.aam-us.org/museumresources/prov/procedures.cfm

For the Association of Art Museum Directors website and press releases, see http://www.aamd.org/papers/

For the Lost Art Internet Database, which facilitates the registration of cultural assets that were relocated, transported, or confiscated as a result of persecution during World War II and the Nazi period, and which lists more than 2,200 looted artworks, see www.lostart.de. The Lost Art Internet Database is a joint project by the Federal Government of Germany and the federal states of Germany.

For New York State organizations dealing with claims, Holocaust restitution information, and searchable lists, see www.claims.state.ny.us/link.htm

For the International Foundation of Art Research website, see http://www.ifar.org. IFAR is a not-for-profit educational and research organization that offers impartial and authoritative information on authenticity, ownership, theft, and other artistic, legal, and ethical issues concerning art objects.

For articles related to looted art, see www.theartnewspaper.com.

For international online resources relating to the Second World War and the looted art problem, see www.museumsecurity.org/ww2. The Museum Security Network is financially supported by the Netherlands Museums Association (NMV) and was founded in 1996 to collect and disseminate information about incidents and trade involving stolen cultural property.

For Records and Research Relating to Holocaust-Era Assets, at the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Maryland; and specifically for information regarding access to primary and secondary resources, see www.archives.gov/research/, Holocaust Era Assets. Searchable online resources include an extensive finding aid to Holocaust-era asset records at the National Archives.

For Holocaust Era Related Resources at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, see www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/, Provenance Index Databases.

For a searchable index of over 2,000 works stolen from victims of the Holocaust, and in the custodianship of the national museums of France since 1949, see www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/bdd/index.html. Click on "MNR" (for Musées Nationaux Récupération).

For an exhibition of works restituted to the French government after WWII and now in the custodianship of the Musée national d'art moderne, shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou, April 9-21, 1997, see www.cnac-gp.fr/musee, Dossiers, MNR.

For provenance information available through other museum Web sites, see:

In the U.S.
Art Institute of Chicago
Cleveland Museum of Art
J. Paul Getty Museum
Harvard University Museums
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Gallery of Art, Washington

In the U.K.
National Museums of the United Kingdom - The National Museum Directors' Conference represents the leaders of the UK's national museums and galleries. While its members are funded by central government, the NMDC is an independent and non-governmental organization.

In France
Musées Nationaux Récupération [MNR] - The French government lists works of art retrieved from Germany following World War II but never claimed by their legitimate owners. Since 1949, these works have been administered under the direction of the Musées de France.

In Germany
Lost Art Internet Database - The German government lists more than 2,200 unclaimed looted works of art still in its possession, as well as information about works still missing from public institutions and private individuals in Germany.

Related Exhibitions

Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
Looted, but from whom?
November 30, 2006 - February 25, 2007

Looted, but from whom? is an exhibition about art objects which were either acquired by forced sale or stolen from their Jewish owners by the Nazis during the Second World War. The fifty art objects on display in the Looted, but from whom? exhibition were chosen to illustrate the efforts of the Origins Unknown Agency.

Online Resources

Shop

Visit