Practice question · Estimate
The UNESCO Convention on illicit trafficking, the bright line for museum acquisitions, dates from which year? Set the slider.
Estimate on a scale from 1930 to 2010.
Hints
- Museums speak of "post-1970 material".
- Two years before the World Heritage Convention.
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1970 (answers within ±5 count)
Why
- Reputable institutions now refuse anything that left its country of origin after that date without documentation, a single year functioning as the market’s conscience.
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