The District Court of Amsterdam is scheduled to hear Ukraine's lawsuit to the Allard Pierson Museum regarding the return of the so-called "Scythian gold" is scheduled for October 5. This was disclosed by the Ministry for Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons in Ukraine.The exhibition 'Crimea: Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea' was composed of collections from five museums, of which one is located in Kyiv and four are located in Crimea.As the Netherlands did not recognize Crimea's reintegration with Russia which occurred after the exhibition was opened, a dispute sparked over where the collection should go after the exhibition is over.On September 10, 2014, the Russian Culture Ministry said Scythian gold items from Kyiv museums had been returned to Kyiv, while items from the Crimean museums remained in the Netherlands.An Amsterdam court is now faced with the issue of who the Crimean artifacts should be returned to.
