#MICC2610905AFrench order declaring loaned museum works temporarily immune from seizure
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This order protects a defined list of museum artworks and cultural objects while they are on loan to France for the Cézanne exhibition in Paris. The works, owned by major museums and foundations in Europe and the United States, cannot be seized during the stated loan period from 1 September 2026 to 17 February 2027. For business and compliance teams, the practical point is that lenders and organizers have state-backed protection for these items while they are in France. The detailed list is not published in full, but it can be consulted at the French Ministry of Culture.
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Key Changes
- Declares specified cultural objects temporarily immune from seizure in France
- Applies this protection to works loaned for the Cézanne exhibition in Paris
- Sets the loan protection period from 1 September 2026 to 17 February 2027
Obligations
What this law requires
The cultural property listed in the annex, owned by the specified foreign museums and foundations and loaned to the named French exhibition organizers, must be treated as non-seizable in France during the loan period.
French host institutions must treat the listed loaned cultural goods as insaisissable (not subject to seizure) during the loan period of 1 September 2026 to 17 February 2027.
The organizers receiving the loaned works (GrandPalaisRmn, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, and the Musée d'Orsay/Musée de l'Orangerie public institution) must maintain the insaisissabilité protection for the listed items while they are on loan in France.
The institutions organizing and holding the loaned works in France must ensure the protection applies only to the cultural goods included in the annexed list for the exhibition CÉZANNE ET NOUS.
Interested parties may consult the non-published list of insaisissable items at the Service des musées de France, Ministry of Culture, if they need to verify which objects are covered.