Cultural Restitution
February 19, 2023
COLOMBIA
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COLOMBIA
Updated February 2023
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Colombia, together with other restitution news.
Entries are updated regularly.
February 2023
After many years of inaction, the Colombian government is demanding the return of 35 sculptures from the San Agustin culture, currently in the collections of Berlin's Humboldt Forum.
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“Would be nice to have a more frank discussion about how objects are collected for the Museum. Saying ‘Donated’ is not enough”
Last week, a delegation of Naga people signed a declaration that will lead to the return of 41 Naga ancestral remains currently held in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
Village leaders at San Benito Poité in southern Belize, formerly British Honduras, are claiming that an important collection of artefacts removed from the ancient city of Pusilha is not the lawful property of the British Museum