Cultural Restitution

January 21, 2021
REPUBLIC OF GHANA
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Republic of Ghana

Updated May 2024


Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Ghana, together with other restitution news.

Entries are updated regularly


May 2024

Asante items loaned by the British Museum and the V&A Museum are placed on display in Kumasi, the capital of the Asante region in Ghana

BBC News


May 2023

An article insists Asante/Ghana should reject any proposal by the British Museum to loan Asante treasures on the basis a loan is "simply anachronistic" in our times

Modern Ghana


May 2023

The ruler of Ghana's Asante people, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, met with the director of the British Museum to ask for the return of gold items in the Museum's collection

BBC News


October 2020

Ghana appoints a 13-person committee to advise on cultural initiatives and to research Ghanaian objects held in international collections

The Art Newspaper





More News

Birmingham Museum helps shrink ‘The Elephant in the Room’

July 3, 2025
“Would be nice to have a more frank discussion about how objects are collected for the Museum. Saying ‘Donated’ is not enough”

Naga ancestral remains to be returned to their homeland

June 17, 2025
Last week, a delegation of Naga people signed a declaration that will lead to the return of 41 Naga ancestral remains currently held in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

Campaign to repatriate Maya artefacts to Belize escalates

May 24, 2025
Village leaders at San Benito Poité in southern Belize, formerly British Honduras, are claiming that an important collection of artefacts removed from the ancient city of Pusilha is not the lawful property of the British Museum