杨阳,现任中国历史博物馆对外展览部主任,从事中国文物出国巡展工作多年,直接负责文物展品的保险估价工作,他介绍说,出于文物的安全考虑,所有外展文物都要保险。保险金额由中方提出,保险费用由外方支付。由于文物到底值多少钱与其自身工作关系极大,杨先生对这一问题非常感兴趣,认为很有探讨的必要,对此也很有自己的看法。杨先生说,由于文物的稀缺性、不可再生性以及不可替代性,一旦出现损毁,其损失是不论以何种方式、何种东西(包括金钱)所不能弥补的。就这个意义上讲,文物的价值 Yang Yang is currently Director of the Exhibition Department of the Chinese Museum of History. He has been working in the China National Tourism Exhibition for many years and is directly responsible for the insurance valuation of cultural exhibits. He said that all outreach cultural relics should be insured for the sake of cultural relics safety. The insurance amount is proposed by China and the insurance fee is paid by the foreign party. Owing to the great value of cultural relics and his great work in his own field, Mr. Yang is very much interested in this issue and considers it very necessary for discussion. He also has his own views. Mr. Yang said that due to the scarcity, irreproducibility and irreplaceable nature of cultural relics, the loss in any case would not be compensated by any means or by any means (including money). In this sense, the value of cultural relics