Shipwreck Show Postponed

[bronzecannons]

Its a SAD day in HELL if you ask me! This wreck was slowly being LOOTED and it would have all be GONE.. forever! Smithsonian - you're a bunch of total wankers!
TW

Shipwreck Show Postponed
June 28, 2011 / http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...how-postponed/

The Smithsonian Institution has indefinitely postponed its plans to mount an exhibition of Chinese artifacts salvaged from a shipwreck because of opposition from archeologists who say the objects were collected by a commercial treasure hunter in a manner that violated professional standards.

The exhibition, “Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds,” was tentatively scheduled for next spring at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s Asian art museums.

A museum spokeswoman, Deborah Galyan, said that the earliest the museum might mount a “Shipwrecked” exhibit now would be 2013, a delay that she said would give the museums’ director, Julian Raby, who also curated the exhibition, time to address some of the archeologists’ concerns.

The exhibition was conceived by the government of Singapore, which bought the artifacts for $32 million from the company that salvaged them from a wreck off the coast of Indonesia. It is currently on view at the ArtScience museum at the Marina Bay Sands resort and casino in Singapore.

The salvage company has said it mined the artifacts quickly to avoid looting.

[Saturna]

Archeologists often prefer the 'leave it on the bottom undiscovered forever' technique.

[Darren in NC]

The moment they delayed was the moment they gave them power...

[VOC]

Unfortunately many underwater archaeologists are very selfish individuals.

They do not care that many thousands of people would like to see and enjoy these artefacts.

They are only interested in themselves and never think of the public at large who provide the money for these selfish idiots to indulge in their own personal interests.

Archaeologists who operate only in their own personal or professional interest should be thought of as parasites on society and should be starved of funds until they become extinct.

[Sapper23]

VOC,


your right on the money!! I see it, and hear it all the time in Saint Augustine,
There is so much LOST History, because of there way of thinking!!
" archaeologist are very selfish individuals. "..
They have no clue, what is the real history of Florida, and Fl. shipwrecks

[bronzecannons]

VOC,


your right on the money!! I see it, and hear it all the time in Saint Augustine,
There is so much LOST History, because of there way of thinking!!
" archaeologist are very selfish individuals. "..
They have no clue, what is the real history of Florida, and Fl. shipwrecks

Slight correction... Not only Florida shipwrecks.. but WORLDWIDE shipwrecks!
TW