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Cultural Restitution
Apr 04, 2023
TANZANIA
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Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Tanzania, together with other restitution news.
Entries are updated regularly.
April 2023
East African families are seeking to recover the remains of their ancestors, removed at the beginning of the 20th century and now held in German colonial collections
March 2023
Hermann Parzinger is recommending the return of hundreds of skulls removed by German scientists from Tanzania during the colonial period
More News
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
