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Cultural Restitution
July 3, 2023
SRI LANKA
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Sri Lanka
Updated June 2024
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Sri Lanka, together
with other restitution news. Entries are updated regularly.
June 2024
Many of the artefacts Sri Lanka is seeking to repatriate from the UK are held in private collections and therefore present significant legal barriers
July 2023
Sri Lanka's cabinet of Ministers has approved a proposal to appoint a committee to prepare an action plan for repatriating Sri Lankan artefacts in various countries
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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
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
In a handover ceremony at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford this week, a cherished cultural object – a sunhat taken violently by British colonisers during punitive expeditions to Sarawak - was returned to the Kenyah Badeng community
