Cultural Restitution

January 21, 2021
REPUBLIC OF GHANA
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Republic of Ghana

Updated November 2025


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

Entries are updated regularly


November 2025

Ghana's Asante King has welcomed the return of 130 gold and bronze artefacts, twenty-five donated by a British art historian, the balance from the South African mining company AngloGold Ashanti

BBC News


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





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February 14, 2026
This week’s announcement that Cambridge University has transferred legal ownership of its collection of 116 Benin artefacts to Nigeria could be hugely significant
February 4, 2026
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
January 30, 2026
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