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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February 4, 2026
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
January 30, 2026
Six Native American skulls, acquired to advance the pseudoscience of phrenology, have been returned by the University of Edinburgh to the Muscogee Nation, a self-governed Native American Tribal Nation