From Risk to Response – How The Heritage Sector Addresses Illicit Trafficking

This article was first published by Balkan Museum Network.

Balkan Museum Network are very proud to present the new publication “From Risk to Response – How The Heritage Sector Addresses Illicit Trafficking”. The publication is part of the Horizon project Aurora (Artwork Unique RecognitiOn and tRacking through chemicAl encoded data, miniaturized devices and blockchain alliance)

In the first part of the publication we are brining to your attention seven engaging articles:

  • Museum-Led Responses to Illicit Trafficking and Cross-Sectoral Cooperation – the case of the Hungarian National Museum by Péter Buzinkay, Anna Puskás, Lujza Varga
  • The Theft and Recovery of Vlaho Bukovac’s “Annunciation Assembly in Sremski Karlovci 1861”to the Museum of Vojvodina: A Case Study in Cultural Heritage Protection and International Collaboration by Aleksandra Stefanov
  • Artefacts, Roots and Networks: An Interdisciplinary Approach to fight Endangered Archaeology and The Trafficking of Cultural Objects by Vincent Michel, Maxime Girard, Éléonore Favier, Benjamin Omer
  • Loom the Looters: Illicit Trafficking of Antiquities and Digital Means to Uncover It by Afroditi Kamara
  • Impact of Activism: Center Against Trafficking in Works of Art and Its Key Areas of Action by Amra Ćebić, Dženan Jusufović
  • Challenges and strategies in the protection of cultural heritage in rural communities. Experiences and proposals from the Comunidad Campesina de Miraflores (Yauyos, Peru) by Rafael Schmitt
  • ICESCO’s Efforts in Combating the Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property in the Islamic World by Bilel Chebbi

The articles examine the persistent global challenge of illicit trade in cultural property through a set of rigorously documented case studies. Rather than offering a simple catalogue of incidents, the first part of this two-volume work maps the intricate legal, institutional and social dynamics that shape contemporary heritage protection.