India, March 29 -- Unlike most museums, this one hopes that its collection, instead of growing, will shrink. This is already happening, somewhat. Before Unesco (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) launched its Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects, three items had faded from its "shelves". (They were returned a few months before the launch.) Six months on, the site (museum.unesco.org) has had over 160,000 visitors and logged more than 1.4 million page views, per Unesco data. The virtual space aims to raise awareness about the impact of the illicit trafficking of cultural property, and encourage restitution and good practices, says Sunna Altnoder, head of Unesco's illicit trafficking and return and resti...