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A Museum Director’s Death in an American Jail

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John Berthelsen
Jun 09, 2008
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On May 9, Roxanna M. Brown, 62, the director of the Southeast Asian Ceramics

Museum in Bangkok and a world authority on ancient Southeast Asian ceramics, flew to Seattle, Washington, to speak at the University of Washington. Five days later, she was dead in a federal jail. The case has sent shock waves through the international art collectingcommunity.

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