Cultural Restitution
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NEPAL
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
June 2023
Nepal's Department of Archaeology announced the recovery of 96 archaeological objects stolen by foreigners over a period of 38 years
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
January 2022
Citizen activist groups in Nepal are asking foreign museums, collectors and art galleries to help return looted objects
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a frieze above the golden gateway of Taleju Bhawani Temple at Patan Durbar Square in the Kathmandu Valley, have been withdrawn from a Bonhams auction in Paris
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