Allard Pierson Museum of Antiquities

This guide to the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam turns on a shipment of ancient Scythian gold that arrived from Ukrainian museums in February 2014, for what was meant to be a short loan exhibition. A month later Russia annexed Crimea, and the museum, itself housed in a former Dutch central bank with old gold-trolley rails still running to its door, found the artifacts claimed by both Kyiv and Moscow. Look for those trolley rails leading from the canal into the entrance hall as you listen.