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Cultural Restitution

January 21, 2021
REPUBLIC OF GHANA
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Republic of Ghana

Updated May 2024


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

Entries are updated regularly


May 2024

Asante items loaned by the British Museum and the V&A Museum are placed on display in Kumasi, the capital of the Asante region in Ghana

BBC News


May 2023

An article insists Asante/Ghana should reject any proposal by the British Museum to loan Asante treasures on the basis a loan is "simply anachronistic" in our times

Modern Ghana


May 2023

The ruler of Ghana's Asante people, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, met with the director of the British Museum to ask for the return of gold items in the Museum's collection

BBC News


October 2020

Ghana appoints a 13-person committee to advise on cultural initiatives and to research Ghanaian objects held in international collections

The Art Newspaper





More News

Who decides when an object is ‘unfit to be retained’?

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’?

Could Britain and Greece be edging closer towards a Parthenon loan agreement?

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

New website records thousands of looted antiquities returned to countries of origin

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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