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Cultural Restitution
Dec 01, 2019
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Updated September 2021
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made by Norway to a country or community of source. Entries are updated regularly.
September 2021
Nearly 100 Mesopotamian artefacts in the collection of a private Norwegian collector are the subject of a restitution request from Iraqi authorities to the Norwegian Ministry of Culture
April 2019
Oslo’s Kon-Tiki Museum agrees to hand back thousands of artefacts, collected by the explorer Thor Heyerdahl in the 1950s, to Rapa Nui
https://www.thelocal.no/20190330/norways-kon-tiki-museum-agrees-to-return-easter-island-items
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A Roman bronze head from a statue of a young man, acquired by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 1971, is returning to Turkey after evidence emerged it was excavated illegally
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
