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

Placing ownership of museum collections under a spotlight

April 2, 2025
Explaining why a looted artefact should be returned to its country or community of origin can sometimes be straightforward. But explaining how is altogether different

Rare Aboriginal shell necklace is returned to Tasmanian homeland

March 28, 2025
A unique shell necklace believed to originate from the Bass Strait islands has been returned by The Hunterian collection to representatives from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) who travelled to Glasgow to carry it home

Report demands an end to the display of African ancestral remains in UK collections

March 14, 2025
Laying Ancestors to Rest pulls no punches. The recommendations made in a new policy brief published by the All Party-Parliamentary Group on Afrikan-Reparations (APPG-AR) include making the sale of human remains illegal and putting an end to the public display of ancestral remains