Needed: A Better Return Policy For America’s Museums

The Metropolitan Museum is returning a 2,500-year-old krater to Italy. The Getty is negotiating on artifacts in its possesion. And Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts may be next. So are America’s museums, one by one, going to have to make deals to cleanse their collections of items of dubious provenance? What is really needed is a plan to deal with the whole mess in an orderly way…