Cultural Restitution

December 1, 2019
GUATEMALA
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 Guatemala
Updated November 2019
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions to Guatemala.  Entries are updated regularly.

November 2017
18 pre-Columbian archaeological pieces, illegally stolen from Guatemala in the 1960s and located in Germany, Italy and Switzerland, are repatriated


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July 3, 2025
“Would be nice to have a more frank discussion about how objects are collected for the Museum. Saying ‘Donated’ is not enough”
June 17, 2025
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
May 24, 2025
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