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Cultural Restitution
December 23, 2023
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Updated December 2023
Below is a schedule of restitution news from the European Union.
Entries are updated regularly.
December 2023
In a report submitted to the European Parliament, practical steps are recommended to resolve cross-border claims to looted art and to prevent illicit trafficking in cultural objects
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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
