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Cultural Restitution
November 14, 2022
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Updated May 2023
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Zimbabwe, together with other restitution news. Entries are updated regularly.
May 2023
Bring Back Our Bones, a campaigning group that aims to recover the missing remains of heroes of the Zimbabwean uprising in the 1890s, has appealed for the return of Mbuya Nehanda's skull
November 2022
President of Zimbabwe has offered to swap the remains of Cecil Rhodes, who is buried in Zimbabwe, for the skulls of resistance fighters held in UK museums
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
