Lost Arts of Nepal was established in 2015 as a Facebook page to create awareness about the lost and stolen heritage of Nepal. The page was established by an anonymous activist, who started to release the fact and details of lost and stolen heritage that are displayed and stored in museums, institutions and private collections. […]

Pratima Pandé, MBE, is presently the Director of Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust. She has served as the Founder Member of Cultural Studies Group of Nepal, the Past President of Alliance Française, the Director of Himalayan Bank, and is currently also the Treasurer and Vice-President of Nepal Heritage Society, a position she has held since 1998. […]

Rabindra Puri, a cultural heritage conservationist, was the first Nepali to win the UNESCO Asia Pacific Cultural Heritage Conservation Award in 2004. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Law, a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts, a Bachelor’s Degree in History, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Management from Tribhuvan University Kathmandu. He earned the first class […]

Joy Lynn Davis is an artist and researcher from California currently based in Sweden. She received her BA in Art from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2002, and studied the Tibetan and Nepali languages and Himalayan art history and religions. During 2010-2015, Davis documented the theft of stone sculptures from the Kathmandu Valley. Her […]

Juergen Schick is a German lawyer who lives in Nepal since 1980, where he began to compile a photographic documentation of Himalayan cultures. A main subject of his work was the documentation of the wealth of ancient art in the Kathmandu Valley, which he documented from 1980-87.  However, he soon became aware that more and […]

Vijay Kumar is a Fellow of the Cost and Management Accountants of India and Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers London (UK). Sculpture and Indian temple art is his passion. He hails from Chennai but moved to Singapore in 2006 as General Manager of a leading Container liner shipping company overseeing their land-side operations […]

Erin L. Thompson holds a PhD in Art History and a JD, both from Columbia, and is an associate professor of art crime at John Jay College (City University of New York). She is an expert in the deliberate destruction of art, analyzing the ways in which this destruction has sometimes harmed and sometimes benefited communities, […]