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Cultural Restitution
Jul 03, 2023
SRI LANKA
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Sri Lanka
Updated July 2023
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Sri Lanka, together
with other restitution news. Entries are updated regularly.
July 2023
Sri Lanka's cabinet of Ministers has approved a proposal to appoint a committee to prepare an action plan for repatriating Sri Lankan artefacts in various countries
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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
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
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
