U.S. Government Demands That Asian Art Museum Return Thai Artifacts

A civil complaint filed by the U.S. federal government this week alleges that two artifacts in the collection of San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum were looted from ancient temples in Thailand. According to a report by CBS SF and AP, the civil lawsuit requests that the museum return the two objects to Thailand, which has been investigating the origins of the pieces since 2016.
The Asian Art Museum announced in September that it planned to deaccession the artifacts in question, both of which