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Cultural Restitution
April 23, 2021
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Updated November 2024
November 2024
Following an official request from the Republic of Benin, the National Museum of Finland is preparing to return a katakle, a ceremonial royal stool acquired in 1939
May 2023
Finland returns two fragments of sacred stones, stolen by Finnish missionaries from Ondonga in northern Namibia, a traditional kingdom of the Ovambo people
November 2021
The Sami Museum Siida in Inari, northern Lapland has received 2,200 objects from the National Museum of Finland
April 2021
The National Museum of Finland is to repatriate 2,200 artefacts, amassed between 1830 and 1998, to the indigenous Sami people in northern Lapland
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