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Cultural Restitution
June 28, 2024
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Updated June 2024
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to China, together with other restitution news.
Entries are updated regularly
June 2024
China launches the Qingdao Recommendations for the protection and return of cultural objects removed from colonial contexts, part of the China-proposed Global Civilization Initiative
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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
In a handover ceremony at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford this week, a cherished cultural object – a sunhat taken violently by British colonisers during punitive expeditions to Sarawak - was returned to the Kenyah Badeng community
