Cultural Restitution
June 28, 2024
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Updated February 2026
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to China, together with other restitution news.
Entries are updated regularly
February 2026
Japan is being urged to return the Chinese Tang Honglu Well Stele of the Tang Dynasty and its pavilion looted by Japan during the Russo-Japanese War in 1908
June 2024
China launches the Qingdao Recommendations for the protection and return of cultural objects removed from colonial contexts, part of the China-proposed Global Civilization Initiative
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This week’s announcement that Cambridge University has transferred legal ownership of its collection of 116 Benin artefacts to Nigeria could be hugely significant
Britain’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has confirmed it will review the exclusion it imposed on national collections that prevents them from returning cultural objects on moral grounds
Six Native American skulls, acquired to advance the pseudoscience of phrenology, have been returned by the University of Edinburgh to the Muscogee Nation, a self-governed Native American Tribal Nation