Cultural Restitution

June 12, 2023
NEW ZEALAND
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Updated April 2025

Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to New Zealand, together with other restitution news.

Entries are updated regularly



April 2025

A precious taonga, made between 1900 & 1908 and collected by an American Mormon missionary in the early 1900s, has been returned from a private collection in Los Angeles to New Zealand

Tepapa.govt.nz


September 2024

Fourteen ancient bronze and stone sculptures are being returned by a private collection in New Zealand to the Republic of Yemen after study and cataloguing by New York's Metropolitan Museum

The Art Newspaper


June 2023

A delegation from New Zealand arrived in Germany last month tasked with repatriating around 100 Maori and Moriori remains across six cities

abc.net.au


July 2022

London's Natural History Museum participates in the largest ever repatriation of human remains by returning the skeletal remains of more than 100 ancestors of the Rekohu tribe to New Zealand

The Guardian


 



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