Turkey's cultural plans at home are coupled with an unprecedentedly bold campaign to bring back treasures that it believes were stolen, which now sit in Western museums.
With the value of vintage bottles hitting hundreds of thousands of dollars, Chinese auction houses have begun scouring the country in search for valuable rarities.
Four chests opened on emeralds and pearls fashioned into collars, necklaces of matching yellow diamonds, and other marvelously-worked pieces resting on layers of loose jewels that reached the halfway mark in each chest.
That room represented the sacrifices of generations gone by who, by poverty or by policy, couldn't afford a curio of collectibles let alone a middle class house to put them in.
As a consequence of centuries of continuous construction and the amassing of art treasures, today the Louvre offers a world-class collection of both French and foreign art.
El Director Picasso helps select the vulnerable cargo, and waits nervously for news as a convoy carrying Spain's art treasures trundles to its safe haven.