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Topical news to help promote and raise the public profile of cultural restitution
Articles with up to date facts, information and current research to ensure the debate is better informed
An official from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church has confirmed the identity of an object held at National Museums Scotland (NMS) as a sacred Ethiopian Tabot
The British Museum has shown itself adept at refusing to provide information to questions they’d prefer not to answer. We hope our initiative to escalate concerns about the Museum’s collection of Ethiopian Tabots to the Information Commissioner’s Office will encourage greater transparency
The emergent gap between Britain’s national and non-state collections is about to get wider, as prospects for a UK nationwide restitution strategy appear as far away as ever
The sale of an Ethiopian shield, believed looted by British forces at Maqdala in 1868 and sent to auction at Anderson & Garland in Newcastle upon Tyne, has been withdrawn from sale
Mongolia’s Minister of Culture, Nomin Chinbat, visited Britain last November on a mission to strengthen UK-Mongolian cultural relations. On her agenda were plans for a 2027 exhibition at London’s Royal Academy to be called Arts of the Mongol World. But research and restitution were also in her sights
Later this year, thirty-two Asante treasures are returning to Ghana for an exhibition at the Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, exactly one hundred and fifty years after British forces plundered the court of the Asante king in 1874
After a petulant Rishi Sunak cancelled a meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, potentially souring relations with an important European neighbour, we ask whether Prime Minister Sunak might have overlooked an important concession by Greece to resolve the Parthenon Marbles dispute
Over the years, a resolution of the world’s longest running restitution dispute has been blighted by an unseemly excess of nationalism and emotion. The arguments for and against the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles have remained largely unchanged
To date, the efforts that private benefactors are making to return looted objects to Ethiopia far exceed the willingness of Britain’s national collections to do the same
The V&A Museum has entered into an historic agreement with the Republic of Yemen for the Museum to temporarily care, research and conserve four ancient carved funerary stelae
