Cultural Restitution

June 7, 2021
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Updated November 2024

Below is a schedule of successful restitutions, together with other restitution news.  Entries are updated regularly


November 2024

The Museum of Stolen Art is on a mission to secure the return of Nepal's stolen cultural heritage scattered across museums and collections around the world

BBC.co.uk


June 2023

Nepal's Department of Archaeology announced the recovery of 96 archaeological objects stolen by foreigners over a period of 38 years

my Republica


May 2023

A gilded statue of Vajradhara, stolen from Dolakha in Nepal in 1995, has been tracked down by Lost Arts of Nepal and voluntarily returned following mediation

Hyperallergic


January 2022

Citizen activist groups in Nepal are asking foreign museums, collectors and art galleries to help return looted objects

Cultural Property News


June 2021

Five 18th cent gilded sculptures, torn from a frieze above the golden gateway of Taleju  Bhawani Temple at Patan Durbar Square in the Kathmandu Valley, have been withdrawn from a Bonhams auction in Paris

The Art Newspaper 



More News

Placing ownership of museum collections under a spotlight

April 2, 2025
Explaining why a looted artefact should be returned to its country or community of origin can sometimes be straightforward. But explaining how is altogether different

Rare Aboriginal shell necklace is returned to Tasmanian homeland

March 28, 2025
A unique shell necklace believed to originate from the Bass Strait islands has been returned by The Hunterian collection to representatives from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) who travelled to Glasgow to carry it home

Report demands an end to the display of African ancestral remains in UK collections

March 14, 2025
Laying Ancestors to Rest pulls no punches. The recommendations made in a new policy brief published by the All Party-Parliamentary Group on Afrikan-Reparations (APPG-AR) include making the sale of human remains illegal and putting an end to the public display of ancestral remains