Tag: Restitution

A UK member of parliament and former minister is raising concerns about curators at national museums in the country aiming to return objects to their native countries. Robert Jenrick, a

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has repatriated an ancient Sumerian copper alloy statue from the third millennium BC to authorities in Iraq. The museum acquired the statue

The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) refutes claims by the New York City District Attorney’s Office regarding the 1916 Egon Schiele painting, “Russian War Prisoner.” The museum maintains that the

The Museum of Fine Arts Boston is returning a small, ornate clay coffin created for an Egyptian boy who died over 3,000 years ago to the Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum

A 19th-century naturalist book that had been missing for 16 years after being stolen from a museum in northern Brazil has been discovered in London and repatriated on 1 May.

The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) has agreed to return a 2,200-year-old statue from Ancient Egypt’s Ptolemaic Dynasty to Libya. The statue, a black basalt figure dating from 200BCE-100BCE, was

A panel of judges from the US Fifth Circuit court of appeals upheld a lower court’s decision to dismiss a claim by heirs of Max J. Emden for the return

Berlin’s Altes Museum has repatriated 25 antiquities, including 21 Apulian vases, that are believed to have been illegally excavated and smuggled out of Italy several decades ago. The German culture

The Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, which oversees the controversial Bührle collection on loan to Zurich’s Kunsthaus, has announced plans to seek settlements with the heirs of the previous Jewish owners

The Art Institute of Chicago has returned a 12th-century rectangular column fragment to the Phanom Rung temple in Thailand after new research revealed its true origin. This red sandstone fragment