In any case Western civilization has spent the last
few thousand years
removing stuff from Egypt not of which will be impacted. I see little
reason to be concerned.
What is of actual concern is not one or a few museums having restrictions,
but a general pattern of museums and governments imposing a vision of
museums as monopolistic capitalist companies rather than as means of
spreading culture.
Clearly, some people able to take decision see museums making money as an
end, rather than as a mean to accomplish an end of educating the public. To
enforce this vision (on which there is no public debate), they take
decisions which effectively negate the benefits of the Berne Convention for
the general public.
You can see this sort of trends in Egypt, Italy, France, United Kingdom and
elsewhere.
THIS is a reason to be concerned all right.
-- Rama