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Cultural Restitution
February 19, 2023
COLOMBIA
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COLOMBIA
Updated February 2023
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Colombia, together with other restitution news.
Entries are updated regularly.
February 2023
After many years of inaction, the Colombian government is demanding the return of 35 sculptures from the San Agustin culture, currently in the collections of Berlin's Humboldt Forum.
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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
