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Cultural Restitution

August 16, 2021
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POLAND

Updated September 2021

Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made by Poland, together with other restitution news


September 2022

Poland is demanding the return of seven paintings now in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow looted during WWII by Soviet forces

The Art Newspaper


August 2021

A new law setting a 30-year limit on any claims to property and approved by Poland's President will curb all restitution claims, including those made by Holocaust survivors

The Art Newspaper




More News


January 30, 2025
What will it take to break the British Museum’s determination not to explain when an object is ‘unfit to be retained’?
December 1, 2024
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
November 30, 2024
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
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