Title
Musées
Nationaux Récupération (MNR) Catalogue
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/mnr/pres.htm
Description
In
accordance with the Decree of 30 September 1949, the Office des Biens Privés
(Office of Private Possessions) consigned to the Direction des Musées de France
(DMF) art objects recuperated from Germany at the end of the Second World War,
the rightful owners of which had not been identified. The Decree stipulated that
the MNRs (Musées Nationaux Récupération or, in English: National Museums of
Recovered Artwork) should be listed in "temporary", separate inventories from
those of state-owned collections. The DMF has published on the Embassy of France
website an online catalogue of the MNRs, numbering circa 2000 items.
Contact Details
Email:
Marie-Renée Courty
Email:
Isabelle Phalippon-Robert
Source
Ministere de
la Culture et de la Communication
<www.culture.gouv.fr>, accessed 22
November 2002.