THE HAGUE, 22 Nov.The University of Amsterdam, which oversees the work of the Allard Pearson Museum, cannot yet confirm an agreement with Ukraine on the return of Scythian gold to it, the institution reported.
“I do not yet have any information that I could confirm,” said a press representative. university services in response to the relevant question.
The Allard Pearson Museum itself, in a conversation with the agency, refused to comment.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy (MCIP) of Ukraine announced that it had reached agreements with the above-mentioned museum on the transfer of the collection of Scythian gold exhibited in Amsterdam. According to Kyiv, the organization refused to collect the cost for the nine-year storage of these exhibits.
Four Crimean museums – the Kerch Historical and Cultural Reserve (which later became part of the East Crimean Museum), the Central Museum of Taurida, the Bakhchisaray Historical and Cultural Reserve and the Tauride Chersonese – sent the exhibition “Crimea -” in 2013 to Bonn, and then to Amsterdam. golden island in the Black Sea.”
After the reunification of Crimea with Russia in 2014, the Netherlands was faced with the question of who should return the collection to. On October 26, 2021, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal decided that the collection of Scythian gold should be transferred to Ukraine. In January 2022, the museums of Crimea sent a cassation appeal to the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, but the court upheld the decision.
In Russia, the court’s position was called biased. The head of the Crimean parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov, suggested that the collection of Scythian gold could end up in the hands of private Western collectors. According to the head of the region, Sergei Aksenov, the collection was simply taken away from Crimean museums.
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