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Cultural Restitution

July 29, 2020
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Updated June 2024


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


June 2024

Spain publishes a list of more than 5,000 items plundered by the Franco regime during the civil war

The Guardian



January 2024

Spain's Minister of Culture has announced a 'review process' of their collections, generating the inevitable heated debate

El Pais


January 2024

Plans to decolonise Spain's 17 state-run museums has led to accusations of "wokery" and has received a mixed reception from both Socialist and right-wing politicians

The Times


January 2024

An expert in heritage studies during the Spanish Civil War is investigating works of art confiscated during the Franco regime, which he compares to looting by the Nazis during WWII

Alaska Commons


December 2023

Six years after being pulled from sale at auction, a fragment of the Tlaquiltenango Codex, discovered in 1909, has been returned by Spain to Mexico

Mexico News Daily


July 2020

Thirteen 1st cent Roman Amphorae and an 18th cent anchor were discovered during a routine food inspection at a frozen seafood shop in the Spanish city of Santa Pola in the province of Alicante

Hyperallergic





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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