Cultural Restitution
February 24, 2021
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Updated 23 February 2021
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Thailand, together with other restitution news.
Entries are updated regularly
February 2021
San Francisco's Asian Art Museum agrees to return two ancient lintels from the Khao Lon and Nong Hong Temples, both legally protected sites since 1935
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Can museum visitors throw light on objects that lack a reliable history, description or provenance? Manchester Museum hopes they can
A rare and important 19th century gold hairpin once owned by Empress Tiruwork, wife of the Abyssinian Emperor Tewodros II, will be returning to Ethiopia following negotiations by the Royal Ethiopian Trust with the Rome auction house Bertolami Fine Art
In 2022 several western collections made a decision to transfer ownership of their Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Reassured by progress on the construction of a major new facility in Benin City, they understood their artefacts would be exhibited in a new museum to be called the Edo Museum of West African Art