Cultural Restitution
August 16, 2021
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POLAND
Updated September 2021
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made by Poland, together with other restitution news
September 2022
Poland is demanding the return of seven paintings now in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow looted during WWII by Soviet forces
August 2021
A new law setting a 30-year limit on any claims to property and approved by Poland's President will curb all restitution claims, including those made by Holocaust survivors
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This week’s announcement that Cambridge University has transferred legal ownership of its collection of 116 Benin artefacts to Nigeria could be hugely significant
Britain’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has confirmed it will review the exclusion it imposed on national collections that prevents them from returning cultural objects on moral grounds
Six Native American skulls, acquired to advance the pseudoscience of phrenology, have been returned by the University of Edinburgh to the Muscogee Nation, a self-governed Native American Tribal Nation