At 03:48 PM 3/24/97 -0800, you wrote: >I'm looking for examples (e.g., newspaper articles and other written documents >I can get my hands on) about cases in which museums have been sued, have gotten >into some other type of legal hot water, or at least have faced intense public >scrutiny and embarrassment over misuse or mishandling of their artifact >collections due to registration problems. I am NOT looking for cases of abuse >in terms of the artifacts' physical condition, but more cases in which artifacts >have disappeared without a paper trail, have been mistakenly treated as personal >property (as in the case where a museum director takes home an object that was >in his/her office when in fact it belonged in the artifact collection), etc. >Hopefully you get the gyst of what I'm after. You may wish to look into a case concerning the director of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles and another concerning the Winterthur Collection. robt