Curator of a museum in Amsterdam political dilemma facing the high value of gold artifacts , on loan from museums Crimea , whether it will be returned to Kiev or Moscow when the exhibit ends later .

Museum to return artifacts confused Netherlands Crimea

Curator of a museum in Amsterdam political dilemma facing the high value of gold artifacts , on loan from museums Crimea , whether it will be returned to Kiev or Moscow when the exhibit ends later .

Exhibition in the Allard Pierson Museum began last month , before Russia annexed Crimea , featuring a number of objects found from tombs seventh century borrowed from five museums in Ukraine , four of them from the Crimea .

Making the area - which is not recognized by the western - putting the museum facing legal issues , said Yasha Lange , spokeswoman for the University of Amsterdam who has a museum .

" Who is the owner of the objects ? " Lange asked .

" The art that will be in Amsterdam until the exhibition is over, but the political changes that we 're finding out , to whom should return on Thursday , " he added .

" The Allard Peierson now returning this matter to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ask for consideration , " Lange said , adding that the museum continues to establish contact with Kiev and Moscow on this subject .

The exhibition includes headgear for ceremonial sword and scabbard made ​​of gold , lacquer -coated boxes from China which in the Roman period found its way to the Crimea through the silk .
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