Cultural Restitution
February 24, 2021
THAILAND
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Updated 23 February 2021
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Thailand, together with other restitution news.
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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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“Modern morality,” wrote Oscar Wilde, “consists in accepting the standard of one’s age.” But how can museums define the moral standard of our age when constrained by historic rules of stewardship and the absence of a modern ethical framework?
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