Cultural Restitution
November 17, 2022
STATE OF PALESTINE
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STATE OF PALESTINE
Updated November 2022
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Palestine, together with other restitution news. Entries are updated regularly.
November 2022
Palestine calls for return of the Shellal Mosaic, removed by Australian and New Zealand soldiers in 1917, which Israel claims should be returned to them
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This week’s announcement that Cambridge University has transferred legal ownership of its collection of 116 Benin artefacts to Nigeria could be hugely significant
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
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