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Cultural Restitution
June 5, 2024
ALGERIA
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ALGERIA
Updated June 2024
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Algeria, together
with other restitution news. Entries are updated regularly
June 2024
Algeria has requested the return from France of objects that belonged to Emir Abdelkader, the 19th century resistance fighter defeated in 1847.
June 2024
Algeria has submitted a list of historical artefacts currently held in France seeking their restitution
More News
What will it take to break the British Museum’s determination not to explain when an object is ‘unfit to be retained’?
There are several reasons why Britain’s new Labour administration may be closer to agreeing a loan of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece than the previous Conservative government, even though a full transfer of ownership remains firmly off the agenda
Investigations into the collecting patterns of major US museums has resulted in two immensely readable and influential books covering today’s illegal trade in trafficking antiquities: Chasing Aphrodite and The Medici Conspiracy
