Ashmolean Museum is the worlds oldest public museum and one of the most important museums of art and archaeology in Britain.

阿什莫尔博物馆是世界上最古老的公共博物馆，也是英国最重要的艺术和考古学博物馆之一。

Museums in the United States, even if they are public museums, are… often cost money.

美国的博物馆，即使是公共博物馆，也… … 经常要花钱。

What's more, major market countries have passed laws to prevent the return of the looted treasures inventoried in public museums to their countries of origin.

更有甚者，主要市场国家已经通过法律，阻止公共博物馆目录中被掠夺的珍宝归还原属国。

The British Parliament had similarly passed laws making it hard to deaccession works from their public museums — although recent legislation has given museum trustees more leeway.

英国议会也同样通过了法律，规定公共博物馆的作品很难被出售——尽管最近的立法给了博物馆受托人更多的回旋余地。

In 2019, the German government passed a resolution, laying the groundwork for the return of the human remains and cultural artifacts from German public museums to their countries of origin.

2019 年，德国政府通过了一项决议，为将德国公共博物馆的人类遗骸和文物归还原属国奠定了基础。