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High-tech storage dungeons and the cultural treasures hidden inside

High-tech storage dungeons and the cultural treasures hidden inside

Update: 2022-01-31

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Freeports are the most expensive and secretive warehouses in the world, which now hide some of the world’s cultural treasures from the public eye.

Join Ben Brock Johnson as he traces the path of one lost Modigliani painting, "Seated Man with a Cane," and attempts to catch a glimpse inside these high-tech storage dungeons.

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High-tech storage dungeons and the cultural treasures hidden inside

High-tech storage dungeons and the cultural treasures hidden inside

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