Changing attitudes to changing antiquities laws

A small grant from Public Policy was provided to support this work by our UCL community to enhance policy engagement and impact.

4 February 2020

Project information

Grant: Engagement Award
Awarded amount: £2,000
Awardee: Stephen Quirke and Alice Stevenson, UCL Archaeology

This project led to a workshop in June 2016, involving organisations to develop recommendations on antiquities law and the forthcoming Cultural Property Bill.

Some organisations included:

British Museum; Trafficking Culture unit
University of Glasgow
UCL Institute of Archaeology
UCL Department of History
Museums Association
Art Fund
Metropolitan Police Art and Antiques Unit

Impacts and Outputs

The recommendations produced from the project have been presented at a dedicated workshop at the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, and the project has resulted in a paper ‘Combining forces: university and museum stakeholders in public policy; to be published in the journal Museum International later this year.

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