Smithsonian caring for looted Yemen artefacts before they can be returned

This article was first published by Blooloop.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has announced a partnership with the Yemeni government to display 77 looted artefacts from Yemen.

The artefacts, which the US government is repatriating to Yemen, will go on view at the museum until they can be returned to the country.

The National Museum of Asian Art is storing and caring for the objects during Yemen’s ongoing humanitarian crisis.

“With the current situation in Yemen, it is not the right time to bring the objects back into the country,” said Yemen’s ambassador to the US, Mohammed Al-Hadhrami.