Updated September 2024

Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made by Denmark to a country or community of source.  Entries are updated regularly.

September 2024

A sacred cloak, constructed of 4,000 scarlet ibis feathers and taken from the Tupinamba people during Portugese colonial rule more than 300 years ago, has been returned by the National Museum of Denmark to Indigenous leaders in Brazil

Artnews.com

August 2023

One of Brazil's main ethnographic artefacts, the well-preserved tupinamba mantle, made in the 17th century with feathers from the red coloured ibis, will be returned to the Museu Nacional do Rio by the Nationalmuseet in Copenhagen

Piaui.folha.uol.com.br

March 2022

A sacred Sami rune drum, confiscated by the Danes in 1691 and held at the National Museum of Denmark, has been returned to the Sami Museum in Karasjok

The Guardian

1971 - 1997

Following an agreement between Iceland and Denmark, the largest part of a highly significant collection of historic manuscripts, written in Iceland and covering the history of Nordic countries, is returned by Denmark

Forbes