PUBLISHED: 27 Apr 2024 at 06: 05
According to Culture Minister Sermsak Pongpanit, Culture Minister Sermsak Pongpanit, the Ministry of Culture has sent a member to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to examine two documents before returning them to Thailand.
The Office of National Museums, which is run by the Department of Fine Arts, is currently in the United States to oversee the examination of the two old iron figures.
One of them is a Standing Shiva, known as the” Golden Boy”, and the other is a female figure in a kneeling position.
The’ Golden Boy’.
The facts and the timeline for the artefact relocation are to be discussed. The Met may make the costs of relocation, which is expected to take place subsequent month, the minister said.
After checking whether the two statues were connected to Douglas Latchford, an American antiquities businessman, who was in 2019 accused of running a significant system that snatched treasures from Southeast Asia, The Met made the decision to return them to Thailand.
A memorandum of understanding on gallery development assistance will also be signed by The Met Max Hollein and Director-general of the Fine Arts Department Phanombut Chantarachot.
Somjai Tapaopong, the Thai president- common in New York, will see the drafting of the MoU.
A kneeling woman statue.