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A visit with Alex Barker, Director, Museum of Art and Archeology
Additional Interview Clips
A Survey of Alex Barker’s Work
Barker’s Fieldwork in Romania
Barker’s Fieldwork in the New World
The Museum of Art and Archaeology
Museum Ethics (cont.)
More than the Object’s Label
Collaborative Research
Beyond the Moundbuilder Myth
How Barker Came to this Field
The Bronze Age
Inside the Museum of Art and Archaeology
Romanian Surrealist Artist, Victor Brauner
Museum Ethics
Topics:
cultural_property
museums
Gone are the days of Indiana Jones or Lara Croft, who could raid tombs without consideration of ethics. Part of Barker’s work concerns museum and cultural property ethics. Both as an archaeologist and as a museum professional, he is concerned about who should own and control cultural treasures. From an archaeological standpoint, cultural property largely concerns the prevention of looting and curbing illicit trafficking in antiquities. The rate of site destruction is huge, and archaeologists worldwide are working to protect the integrity of remaining sites.