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Is art and heritage crime understudied? Yes, but together we can change that.
Bringing together people, cultures, and ideas through immersive experiences, ARCA’s eLearning offerings are individually designed short courses created by experts working in the field of cultural property protection. Each of the courses we have selected have been designed to create a dynamic global classroom community bringing people from all parts of the globe together to learn and explore this understudied area of the art world.
Skills
ARCA’s courses are designed by experts with years of professional experience working in and training others focused on cultural property protection and crime prevention.
Strategy
Participants who train with ARCA develop a mastery of job-relevant, critical knowledge useful in ethically navigating a variety of careers connected to the art and antiquities world.
Success
ARCA’s structured courses are developed to offer the flexibility or concentrated intensity learners want and need, wherever they live and work.
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Why Study Cultural Crime? A Question and Answer Session Introducing ARCA’s Postgraduate Training Programmes
Art will always attract criminals, not because they love it, but because there is a market for it. This 1.5 hour , eCourse will illustrate why combatting art and antiquities crime requires specialised training.
Looting and Illicit Trafficking of Antiquities in the Middle East and North Africa: Understanding the Minds and Motives of Looters, Traffickers and Dealers and Other Supply Chain Actors – v3
This three-session, 4.5-hour, low participant-to-instructor ratio, eCourse will provide an introduction to the devastating effects of the looting and trafficking of antiquities in the Middle East and North Africa. The course’s sessions will provide examples of conflict and post-conflict incidences with illustrative examples from multiple countries, from Afghanistan in the East to Libya in the West.
In sunlight or in shadow: The Modern Plague of Art and Antiquities Thefts – 3rd Edition
Contrary to popular belief art crime does not only affect a small privileged section of society. In actuality, the phenomenon is rooted in the history of mankind and has great impact on nations as well as individuals.
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Italy PG Cert
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Art and War
Antiquities
Tomb Raiders
Forgery
Heritage
Mediation
Napoleone
Provenance
Nazi Thefts
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“Training with ARCA can free you from tunnel vision and open up access to pockets of your field that you have never thought of before.”
Marc Collins
OPP Officer, Canada
Dima Ashker
Office of the Director General of Antiquities & Museums, Syria
“I loved every minute that I spent studying with ARCA. It was the most important experience of my career.”
“ARCA transformed my interest in art crime into a veritable passion. I love sharing all the knowledge I have acquired with my students and colleagues who are now almost as fired up about fighting art crime as I am! I am eternally grateful to ARCA for opening up this whole new world to me.”
Suzette Scotti
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA
Benefits
In a world that says fit in; we believe in standing out.
Courses Unlike Any Other
Academically-challenging classes that drill down into subjects not offered in traditional university settings.
Quality Over Quantity
Low participant-to-instructor ratio allows learners to cultivate closer relationships with lecturers.
Birds of a Unique Feather
Participants meet and engage with a variety of industry specific experts in this highly specialised field.
Art and Antiquities Crime Happens more often than you might think
Some blog post highlights from ARCA’s art and antiquities blog.
An INTERPOL, Europol and World Customs Organization joint investigation produces 101 arrests.
Illicit trafficking Seizure Arrests Interpol has issued a preliminary announcement on Operations Athena II and Pandora IV. A total of 300 coordinated investigations took place, spanning 103 countries. All of which focused on the dismantlement of international...
Remembering the long returned Orpheus Taming the Beasts mosaic
Illicit trafficking Seizure Arrests The city of Şanlıurfa, modern-day Urfa, is situated in the Taurus Mountains of southern Anatolia, where the east-west highway from Zeugma on the Euphrates to where the Tigris meets with the north-south route from Somaysāṭ. Known...
Shocking images of the theft of the Van Gogh in Holland shows thief used a sledgehammer
Van Gogh The NetherlandsMuseum Theft The Dutch police have released a portion of the video surveillance footage of a single suspect directly involved in the nighttime theft of Vincent Van Gogh's Parish garden in Nuenen from the Singer Laren Museum. On loan from the...
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