Chloe Veltman:
Stolen around 60 years ago in a massive art heist, the statues are soon heading home to Thailand.
Before they leave, the museum is explaining how these artifacts wound up in its collection in the first place in the exhibition Moving Objects: Learning from Local and Global Communities.
This effort is indicative of a growing trend: Museums opening up about dark truths.
The Asian Art Museum is just one institution confronting these competing forces out in the open.
There is also an exhibition at the Smithsonian NatMus of African Art in Washington about the story of stolen Benin treasures.
While the Museum of Food and Drink held an event ahead of repatriation of 50 ancient objects to Mexico.
