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Cultural Restitution
July 28, 2022
UKRAINE
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UKRAINE
Updated January 2024
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made by Ukraine, together with other restitution news. Entries are updated regularly.
January 2024
Looted artefacts from excavations in eastern and southern Ukraine, discovered by Estonian customs officials in a truck entering Estonia from Russia, are being returned to Ukraine
July 2023
The Dutch Supreme Court upholds an earlier ruling that 1,000 cultural objects, loaned to the Allard Pierson Museum in the Netherlands in 2014, must be returned to the State of Ukraine and not to Russian-held Crimea
July 2022
Ukrainian authorities uncover a trove of ancient Scythian weapons believed to have been looted from museums in occupied Crimea
More News
What will it take to break the British Museum’s determination not to explain when an object is ‘unfit to be retained’?
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
