“If our exhibits are really sent to Ukraine, this is going to be the grossest violation of property rights, the principles of museum business and cooperation. That will call our further relations with such unreliable partners into question,” Malgin emphasized, adding that all the exhibits were the property of museums that had signed appropriate documents allowing the artifacts to leave Crimea.
“All the exhibits were found in the territory of Crimea and are part of an integral collection of appropriate museums. It’s going to be absolute disgrace if they do not return to where they belong,” Malgin went on to say. He still hopes to see the Scythian gold back home.
The “Crimea: Gold and Black Sea Secrets” exposition has been on view at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam since February 2014. It features more than 550 exhibits from Kiev museums and four Crimean museums, including jewelry made of precious stones, weapons and household utensils telling about the peninsula’s rich history.