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Cultural Restitution

Jul 29, 2020
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Updated January 2024


Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made by Spain, together with other Spanish restitution news.  Entries are updated regularly


January 2024

Spain's Minister of Culture has announced a 'review process' of their collections, generating the inevitable heated debate

El Pais


January 2024

Plans to decolonise Spain's 17 state-run museums has led to accusations of "wokery" and has received a mixed reception from both Socialist and right-wing politicians

The Times


January 2024

An expert in heritage studies during the Spanish Civil War is investigating works of art confiscated during the Franco regime, which he compares to looting by the Nazis during WWII

Alaska Commons


December 2023

Six years after being pulled from sale at auction, a fragment of the Tlaquiltenango Codex, discovered in 1909, has been returned by Spain to Mexico

Mexico News Daily


July 2020

Thirteen 1st cent Roman Amphorae and an 18th cent anchor were discovered during a routine food inspection at a frozen seafood shop in the Spanish city of Santa Pola in the province of Alicante

Hyperallergic





More News

Getty Museum to return a looted bronze head to Turkey

03 May, 2024
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

National Museums Scotland identifies an Ethiopian Tabot

10 Apr, 2024
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

British Museum faces investigation by Information watchdog over sacred Tabots

31 Mar, 2024
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
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