Missing Cultural Objects

FAIN: GA-280310-21

Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art (Dallas, TX 75206-6010)
Anna Bottinelli (Project Director: December 2020 to October 2022)

This request provides critical funding for the Foundation staff to evaluate and act upon the large volume of leads it has in hand, and continues to receive, concerning cultural objects – rare books, priceless documents, and works of art – missing since World War II. No other organization provides such a service. To date, the Foundation has located and returned to the rightful owners – libraries, public museums, and national archives – thirty cultural objects, some of which are priceless. 
Accompanying the rapidly increasing loss of the World War II generation is information critical to locating and identifying missing objects making this project a race against time.