Asia Society’s 2015 Arts & Museum Summit (Day Two)
By Denise Tsui
Chang Lin-sheng, director of Aurora Museum in Shanghai, shares examples of artefacts in the institution’s collection that were repatriated upon ascertaining that the objects had been looted
Armed with a strong coffee in one hand and my laptop in the other, I was ready for day two of Asia Society’s Arts & Museum Summit held on November 20. The morning began with a lesson in conservation practices from two museums in Shanghai. Chang Lin-sheng, director of Aurora Museum, gave a walkthrough of history involving Chinese antiquities and provenance. Her point to take home, regarding a mindset many museums are yet to learn, concerned Aurora’s proud repatriation of not one, but several artefacts, which was conducted upon discovering that the objects had been previously looted and illegally traded.
