Cultural Restitution
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Updated October 2023
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made by Austria to a country or community of source, together with other restitution news. Entries are updated regularly
October 2023
The Austrian Academy of Sciences will repatriate the remains of six Aboriginal ancestors, collected by ethnologist and anthropologist Rudolf Poch in 1905, to Australia
June 2023
A stone yoke, perhaps worn by players of ancient Mesoamerican ball games, has been withdrawn from an auction sale in Austria and returned to Mexico
June 2023
Austria's culture secretary announces plans to introduce a draft law for handling colonial restitution claims for objects in Federal collections following recommendations of expert committee
May 2023
Austria's Labour Minister Martin Kocher attended a hui at the Waitangi Treaty grounds where returning artefacts looted in the late 1800s by Andreas Reischek was discussed
May 2023
Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum is in negotiations with the Acropolis Museum to loan two stone fragments from the Parthenon
September 2022
The ancestral remains of about 64 Maori and Moriori will be returned by Austria to Aotearoa in the biggest repatriation of remains by that country
February 2022
The Natural History Museum in Vienna is returning to Hawaii two skulls stolen by an English adventurer in the 19th century
January 2022
Austria announces plans to set up a panel of experts to develop guidelines for restitution claims, with results expected to be published in spring 2023
August 2021
Austria is being being pressed by Mexico to return a Mexica quetzal feather headdress that may have belonged to the last Mexica Emperor Moctezuma II
July 2020
Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum has called for the return of four 26th Dynasty Egyptian Canopic Jars offered for sale by Munich auction house Gorny & Mosch
July 2019
Austria promises to return to Russia ancient artefacts, some from the Hellenistic period, taken as war trophies during WWII
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