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Cultural Restitution

May 18, 2020
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Sweden
Updated June 2020


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


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

ArtDaily


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

Art Daily


February 2008

Lund University in southern Sweden returned the remains of two Aboriginals after the Swedish Government ordered the repatriation of all Aboriginal remains

Sydney Morning Herald


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 

NBC News




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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