Cultural Restitution

June 7, 2021
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Updated November 2024

Below is a schedule of successful restitutions, together with other restitution news.  Entries are updated regularly


November 2024

The Museum of Stolen Art is on a mission to secure the return of Nepal's stolen cultural heritage scattered across museums and collections around the world

BBC.co.uk


June 2023

Nepal's Department of Archaeology announced the recovery of 96 archaeological objects stolen by foreigners over a period of 38 years

my Republica


May 2023

A gilded statue of Vajradhara, stolen from Dolakha in Nepal in 1995, has been tracked down by Lost Arts of Nepal and voluntarily returned following mediation

Hyperallergic


January 2022

Citizen activist groups in Nepal are asking foreign museums, collectors and art galleries to help return looted objects

Cultural Property News


June 2021

Five 18th cent gilded sculptures, torn from a frieze above the golden gateway of Taleju  Bhawani Temple at Patan Durbar Square in the Kathmandu Valley, have been withdrawn from a Bonhams auction in Paris

The Art Newspaper 



More News

Birmingham Museum helps shrink ‘The Elephant in the Room’

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”

Naga ancestral remains to be returned to their homeland

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

Campaign to repatriate Maya artefacts to Belize escalates

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