Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 806 Discussion

The matter about the signing of the works can be said to have come to an end, but for Liang En and the others, the trip in Japan is not over, mainly because Liang En received an invitation from the Louvre.

This invitation comes from an international project, which mainly involves exchanges between various museums and archaeologists. In addition to non-governmental organizations and institutions, there are also some official institutions involved.

According to the inviter, this year's event will be held in Tokyo, Japan these few days. For Liang En, attending the meeting is very convenient, so that's why he is willing to stay in Tokyo.

So on the fifth day after the signing, Liang En came to a conference room at the University of Tokyo to have an exchange with scholars from all over the world.

As for the content of this exchange, it is also very simple. The core of the topic is about the operation of non-profit museums. I hope that the exchange can open up ideas for everyone.

Or you can directly say that this is a pure exchange meeting, and everyone just puts forward their own opinions, and then sees whether the opinions put forward by others are suitable for them.

After all, there is a huge difference between museums and museums, so a solution that works in one museum may not only have no positive effect in another museum, but may have a negative effect.

Therefore, communication in this case is just pure communication, and unless someone asks, it will not involve any practical content.

The first batch of speakers were the directors of several large museums and famous private museums.They will share their knowledge about museum operation with others present.

However, after listening to the speeches of three or four people, Liang En found that the operation of the museum can be said to be even he can say that except for a few people, most people's operations are just very routine operations.

In other words, the profitability of these museums has nothing to do with their operating capabilities, but because these museums have their own characteristics.But the advantages are completely inimitable.

Just like the few museums that Liang En has in hand.The reason why these museums are doing well overall is not because Liang En and the others are good at running them, but because the characteristics of these museums are irreplaceable.

Whether it's Mucha's works or the treasures of the Madame Atoka, these things are basically irreplaceable items.It's just that for many people this fact is not good news for them.

However, as the exchange meeting progressed, Liang En also discovered some problems, the simplest of which included that for many old museums, it was not so easy to operate in the new era.

For many museum operators, some traditional management methods are outdated, but they don’t know how to use some new management methods. Under such circumstances, they will naturally come here hoping to learn some experience.

For example, the National Museum in Iraq is facing such a problem. The environment he is facing now is very bad from various perspectives, so he hopes to find another way to find a development path that suits him.

"Thank you very much. Thanks to your previous help, we were able to find the ancient city of Uruk and at the same time develop more financial resources." After recognizing Liang En, the curator surnamed Hussein She shook his hand vigorously.

For this curator who manages museums in a war-torn country, he has seen the loss of countless cultural relics, so he is naturally grateful to Liang En, a noble historical discoverer in various senses.

And what's more important to him is that with the excavations in Uruk and the sights that come with it, they get more attention and more funding, which is very important for a national museum.

More importantly, attention means that more people are paying attention to this relic, and for a country that is in ruins after the war, this kind of attention is very precious and can bring more Chance.

"This is what I should do as a treasure hunter and historian." Liang En looked at the vicissitudes of the museum director and said seriously.

He knows how hard the other party is doing this job now. After all, Iraq is a country with a long history, but now the country is in decline.

It is very difficult for a weak country to keep its own treasures. In fact, the Iraq Museum was robbed during the war more than ten years ago, and many important treasures have been lost overseas until today.

To this day, in some underground auctions in Europe and America, you can still see the cultural relics with the Iraq Museum label on them, and these labels have even become a representative feature of a certain batch of cultural relics.

An important reason why the curator of the museum came to participate in such an exchange meeting was to be able to contact colleagues from various countries to issue a call together, hoping to return those cultural relics that were taken away in previous wars.

Although this is not a difficult matter from a legal point of view, many things cannot be resolved by the law. For example, it is too difficult to recover cultural relics from the rich by relying on the law alone.

There is no doubt that the people who bought these cultural relics are rich people, and trying to get the cultural relics back from them is no less difficult than sending a camel through the eye of a needle, and the lawyers they can afford are enough to create a lot of obstacles .

However, this does not mean that such calls are useless. At least judging from the current social situation, except for a very small number of rich people, most of the rich are public figures. Will choose to return.

Of course, this does not mean that they are very kind, but because for them, if they do not return the cultural relics that were looted before, the pressure of public opinion will be very heavy on them, causing them to lose more.

Just like the curator of the Iraqi Museum, many people who participated in this meeting also had their own things to do, so during the meal and break time in the middle, everyone found the person they wanted to find and started communication activities.

For example, under the introduction of the curator of the Iraqi National Museum, Liang En participated in a discussion circle of people from those Middle Eastern countries, and then exchanged work on the protection of cultural relics and the search for relics.

Especially when Liang En talked about searching for the relics, all the people present listened seriously. For them, searching for the relics is also a very important thing.

Because it is different from other countries, for cultural relic protection and archaeologists in those countries, it is often necessary to determine the location of those cultural relics in the shortest time, and then start excavation work ahead of those criminals.

This is a wrong approach in most countries, because in many cases the excavation of cultural relics will damage the cultural relics, so in most cases the excavation work is only a rescue excavation.

But the situation in these chaotic countries is completely different. If they can't dig it out in advance, they can only watch those precious cultural relics being stolen.Then leave the country forever.

(End of this chapter)