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Art Restitution and Cultural Heritage Preservation | Monuments Men and Women FoundationExplore Monuments Men and Women Foundation's mission of honoring the legacy of the Monuments Men and Women, returning artworks to their rightful owners, and establishing standards of provenance and cultural heritage preservation.

The True Story of the Monuments Men Without the work of these curators and professors, tens of thousands of priceless works of art would have been lost to the world forever

Shall We Defend Our Common History? - ImprimisWelcome to the new Orwellian world where censorship is free speech and we respect the past by attempting to elide it.

Two Revolutions for FreedomAmerica's deepening political crisis is not, as some claim, the inevitable result of its liberal-democratic ideals. Rather, we are witnessing a culture war between the defenders of two radically different and competing views of human freedom. And we ...

Shall We Defend Our Common History? - ImprimisWelcome to the new Orwellian world where censorship is free speech and we respect the past by attempting to elide it.

Ukrainian Museums Are Racing to Save Artifacts That Tell the Country’s Story“This is a war against our history, our culture,” says Ihor Poshyvailo, a museum director in Kyiv. But Ukraine's museums are fighting back

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Ukraine: The race to save the country's artistic treasuresAs the Russian invasion continues, efforts to protect Ukraine's cultural heritage are stepped up.

Artworks carried to safety as fire blazes at Copenhagen’s old stock exchangeSpire collapses as fire engulfs Danish landmark, which houses one of country’s most valuable art collections

Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art

Monuments WomenFemale members of the WWII Monuments “Men” finally move into the spotlight.

Behind The Movie, Tales From The Real-Life 'Monuments Men'George Clooney anchors a thriller about a celebrated military unit that worked to recover and protect precious art and artifacts during the chaos at the end of World War II. NPR's Joel Rose reports on the mission — and some of the surviving members.