Cultural Restitution

December 1, 2019
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Updated November 2024


Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made by Norway to a country or community of source.  Entries are updated regularly.


November 2024

For the third time, Oslo's Kon-Tiki Museum is returning artefacts and human remains collected by Thor Heyerdahl in the late 1940s to Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

apnews.com




September 2021

Nearly 100 Mesopotamian artefacts in the collection of a private Norwegian collector are the subject of a restitution request from Iraqi authorities to the Norwegian Ministry of Culture

ArtDaily



April 2019

Oslo’s Kon-Tiki Museum agrees to hand back thousands of artefacts, collected by the explorer Thor Heyerdahl in the 1950s, to Rapa Nui

https://www.thelocal.no/20190330/norways-kon-tiki-museum-agrees-to-return-easter-island-items



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