Museums are not generally in the habit of acquiring stolen goods intentionally. But in the long, shady history of public and private art acquisition, countless works of art may come to a museum with little in the way of a paper trail. Most museums accept such works without question, and proceed to claim them as having been legitimately acquired. But with the drive to ‘repatriate’ artworks looted by Nazis gathering steam, and governments fighting over ownership of cultural artifacts, museums are increasingly under pressure to take an active role in stemming the unchecked flow of stolen antiquities. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is currently on the horns of just such a dilemma.