Cultural Restitution

December 1, 2019
KUWAIT
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Kuwait
Updated October 2020

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

October 2018
Kuwaiti authorities return the lid of a sarcophagus to Egypt, smuggled into the Gulf state in March 2018

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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