Cultural Restitution
October 8, 2024
ETHIOPIA
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ETHIOPIA
Updated October 2024
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Ethiopia, together
with other restitution news. Entries are updated regularly
October 2024
The newly created Royal Ethiopian Trust has negotiated the return to Ethiopia of a 19th century shield looted from from Maqdala and withdrawn from a UK auction in February 2024
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“Modern morality,” wrote Oscar Wilde, “consists in accepting the standard of one’s age.” But how can museums define the moral standard of our age when constrained by historic rules of stewardship and the absence of a modern ethical framework?
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