Cultural Restitution
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Updated May 2024
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made by Sweden, together with other Swedish restitution news. Entries are updated regularly.
May 2024
Sweden's Ambassador to Nigeria has announced her government's intention to return thirty-nine Benin artefacts to Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments
June 2022
Nineteen years after making the initial request, a Maaso Kova ceremonial deer's head and 23 other artefacts from the Yaqui Nation in northern Mexico have been returned by Sweden's Museum of Ethnography
June 2020
Nationalmuseum Sweden has recommended the return of a stolen painting by the School of Lucas Cranach the Elder to Muzeum Narodowe we Wroclawiu in Poland
February 2008
Lund University in southern Sweden returned the remains of two Aboriginals after the Swedish Government ordered the repatriation of all Aboriginal remains
September 2004
Sweden's National Museum of Ethnography returns the remains of 15 Aboriginals to Australia after public opinion was infuriated after confirmation Swedish explorers had stolen them
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