Our founder, Leila A. Amineddoleh, is honored to be speaking at the Victoria & Albert Museum later this month. As part of the Culture in Crisis series, Leila’s lecture, Protecting Cultural Heritage: Theft, Looting and the Law, will examine the history of antiquities looting, repatriation cases, and due diligence for art acquisitions. Tickets to the public are free, and are available on the museum’s website.   

The V&A is a unique cultural institution. It traces its roots to the Museum of Manufactures in 1852, and the current building had its foundation stone laid by Queen Victoria in 1899.  With a collection spanning 5,000 years of art, it is the world’s largest museum of applied and decorative arts and design, as well as sculpture, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects.

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