Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

It can be said that the work signing event has come to an end, but for Liang En and the others, their trip to Japan has not ended. This is mainly because Liang En received an invitation from the Louvre.

This invitation comes from an international project, which mainly involves exchanges between museums and archaeologists. In addition to private organizations, there are also some official participants.

According to the inviter, this year's event will be held in Tokyo, Japan within a few days. For Liang En, it is very convenient to attend the meeting, so this is 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 management of non-public museums. I hope that this exchange can open up ideas for everyone.

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

After all, there are huge differences between museums, so a solution that works in one museum may not have any positive effect in another, but may have a negative effect.

Therefore, the communication in this case is just a simple communication. Unless someone asks, it will not involve any practical content.

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

However, after listening to the speeches of three or four people, Liang En found that the management of the museum was OK. Even he could say that except for a few people, most people's operations were just very routine operations.

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

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

This is true whether it is Mucha's works or the treasures of the Lady Atoka. These things are basically irreplaceable items. But for many people this fact is not good news.

However, as the exchange meeting progressed, Liang En also discovered some problems, the simplest of which was that for many established museums, it is not 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. In this case, they will naturally come here hoping to learn some experience.

For example, the National Museum in Iraq is facing such a problem. The environment it is facing now is very bad from all angles, so it hopes to find another way to find a development path that suits itself.

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

For a director who manages a museum in a war-torn country, he has seen the loss of countless cultural relics, so he is naturally grateful to Liang En, a noble discoverer of history in every sense of the word.

And more importantly to him, with the excavation of Uruk and the attention that came with it, they received more attention and more funding, which is very important for a national museum.

What's more important is that attention means that more people are paying attention to this ruins. For a country that is waiting for development after the war, this kind of attention is very valuable and can bring more people. Chance.

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

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

It is extremely difficult for a weak country to protect its treasures. In fact, the Iraqi Museum was robbed during the war more than ten years ago, and many important treasures have been lost overseas to this day.

To this day, cultural relics with Iraqi museum labels can still be seen in some underground auctions in Europe and the United States, and these labels have even become representative features of a certain batch of cultural relics.

An important reason why the museum director came to such an exchange meeting is to contact colleagues from various countries to jointly issue a call for the return of cultural relics that were taken away in previous wars.

Although this is not a difficult matter from a legal perspective, there are many things that cannot be solved by the law. For example, it is too difficult to recover cultural relics from wealthy people relying solely on the law.

There is no doubt that the people who bought these cultural relics are wealthy people, and getting the cultural relics back from them is as difficult as putting a camel through the eye of a needle. Just the lawyers they can afford are enough to create a lot of obstacles. .

However, this does not mean that this type of call has no effect. At least judging from the current social situation, except for a very small number of wealthy people, most wealthy people are public figures, so after being publicly acquired, they often Will choose to return it.

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

Just like the director of the Iraq Museum, many people attending this meeting also had their own things to do, so during the meal and rest time, everyone found the people they wanted to find for communication activities.

For example, Liang En was introduced by the director of the National Museum of Iraq to participate in a discussion circle belonging to people from Middle Eastern countries, and then they exchanged ideas about the protection of cultural relics and the search for relics.

Especially when Liang En talked about searching for ruins, the people present all listened attentively. For them, searching for ruins was also a very important matter.

Because it is different from other countries, cultural relic protection and archaeological personnel in those countries often need to determine the location of those cultural relics in the shortest possible time, and then start excavation work before the 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 just 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 this country forever.