Cultural Restitution

April 23, 2021
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Updated May 2025

May 2025

A three-legged royal stool from the West African kingdom of Dahomey has been returned from the National Museum of Finland to Benin

rfi.fr/en/africa


November 2024

Following an official request from the Republic of Benin, the National Museum of Finland is preparing to return a katakle, a ceremonial royal stool acquired in 1939

sttinfo.fi


May 2023

Finland returns two fragments of sacred stones, stolen by Finnish missionaries from Ondonga in northern Namibia, a traditional kingdom of the Ovambo people

The Heritage Times


November 2021

The Sami Museum Siida in Inari, northern Lapland has received 2,200 objects from the National Museum of Finland

Museum Next


April 2021

The National Museum of Finland is to repatriate 2,200 artefacts, amassed between 1830 and 1998, to the indigenous Sami people in northern Lapland

The Art Newspaper



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