Culturally Significant Objects: Exhibition Import Determination, Holocaust Museum LA
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The State Department issued a notice determining that certain objects imported from abroad for temporary display in the exhibition "The Beautiful Game... The Untold Story" at Holocaust Museum LA in Los Angeles are culturally significant and that their temporary exhibition or display is in the national interest. The determinations were made pursuant to the Act of October 19, 1965 (22 U.S.C. 2459) and related delegations of authority. Sherry C. Keneson-Hall, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs, signed the notice on behalf of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
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The State Department published a Federal Register notice making cultural significance determinations under 22 U.S.C. 2459 for objects imported from abroad for temporary exhibition purposes. The notice confirms that objects being imported for display in "The Beautiful Game... The Untold Story" exhibition at Holocaust Museum LA qualify as culturally significant and that their temporary exhibition in the United States serves the national interest.\n\nMuseums, galleries, and cultural institutions importing objects from abroad for temporary exhibitions may benefit from understanding this determination process. While this notice applies specifically to Holocaust Museum LA, it illustrates the mechanism by which cultural imports can receive national interest determinations, potentially facilitating similar import arrangements for qualifying exhibitions.
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SUMMARY:
Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: I hereby determine that certain objects being imported from abroad
pursuant to agreements with their foreign owners or custodians for temporary display in the exhibition “The Beautiful Game
. . . The Untold Story” at the Holocaust Museum LA, in Los Angeles, California, and at possible additional exhibitions or
venues yet to be determined, are of cultural significance, and, further, that their temporary exhibition or display within
the United States as aforementioned is in the national interest. I have ordered that Public Notice of these determinations
be published in the
Federal Register
.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Reed Liriano, Program Coordinator, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State (telephone: 202-632-6471; email: section2459@state.gov). The mailing address is U.S. Department of State, L/PD, 2200 C Street, NW (SA-5), Suite 5H03, Washington, DC 20522-0505.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The foregoing determinations were made
pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), Executive Order 12047
of March 27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 Stat. 2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 note, et seq.), Delegation of Authority No. 234 of October 1, 1999, Delegation of Authority No. 236-3 of August 28, 2000, and Delegation
of Authority No. 523 of December 22, 2021.
Sherry C. Keneson-Hall, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department
of State. [FR Doc. 2026-07924 Filed 4-22-26; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4710-05-P
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