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a frieze above the golden gateway of Taleju  Bhawani Temple at Patan Durbar Square in the Kathmandu Valley, have been withdrawn from a Bonhams auction in Paris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 



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