SF's Asian Art Museum returns statues stolen from Thailand in 1960s

Tuesday Morning Topline: Asian Art Museum Returns Looted Thai Statues

San Francisco's Asian Art Museum is returning some statues that were looted in the mid 1960s from the ruins of a temple in northeast Thailand. "Their repatriation not only safeguards an important part of heritage, but it also allows their history to continue as an enduring part of the Thai nation," says Thailand's ambassador to the US, H.E. Dr. Suriya Chindawongse. [ABC 7]There was a total of 10 small earthquakes on the Calaveras Fault Monday, c…

SF's Asian Art Museum returns statues stolen from Thailand in 1960s

The statues were looted in the mid 1960s from the ruins of a temple in northeast Thailand. The ones at the Asian Art Museum will be some of the first to be returned to Thailand since the looting took place in the mid 1960s.

US Museum Returns Four Ancient Thai Sculptures Smuggled Decades Ago

San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum formally repatriates 1,200-year-old bronze Prasaat Phokhon Chai statues to Thailand; artifacts due to arrive this month

Sixty years after they were stolen, the Asian Art Museum returns ancient bronze sculptures to Thailand.

Returning four bronze sculptures—three Bodhisattva figures and one of Buddha—to Thailand, about 60 years after they were smuggled out of the country, is the ethical and lawful thing to do, according to Natasha Reichle, San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum’s associate curator of Southeast Asian art.She thinks it goes beyond duty. “It’s a step we can take to build new equitable relationships with Thailand and other countries in Southeast Asia,” she sa…