To whom it may concern

This essay is a shot across the bow of public and private actors, encouraging them to show their colours on public-private partnerships (PPP) on cultural heritage. Encounters between public and private partners on cultural heritage have not yet come of age; as such, an exploration into the means to develop the current one-way shifts of resources between public and private actors towards full-grown PPP-projects is necessary.



This essay contains a short exploration from a legal and a managerial perspective, and focuses on art collections, art storage and artists' archives as representative examples of creative entrepreneurship in the field of movable cultural heritage. It concludes that after both public and private partners have reached the right mindset, tax and legal measures must be improved to serve as leverage for PPP projects.





Frederik Swennen is Associate Professor of law at the University of Antwerp, where he holds the chair in the Law of Persons and Family Law. In addition, his research and education projects include Art & Law. He is a member of several academic committees and (editorial) boards and has written numerous academic publications in his fields of research and expertise. As an attorney at Greenille and at Stew-art by Greenille, Frederik Swennen specializes in family law and in the legal unburdening of property and transfer of art collections and archives, on behalf of private and public parties.