Cultural Restitution
July 28, 2022
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UKRAINE
Updated January 2024
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made by Ukraine, together with other restitution news. Entries are updated regularly.
January 2024
Looted artefacts from excavations in eastern and southern Ukraine, discovered by Estonian customs officials in a truck entering Estonia from Russia, are being returned to Ukraine
July 2023
The Dutch Supreme Court upholds an earlier ruling that 1,000 cultural objects, loaned to the Allard Pierson Museum in the Netherlands in 2014, must be returned to the State of Ukraine and not to Russian-held Crimea
July 2022
Ukrainian authorities uncover a trove of ancient Scythian weapons believed to have been looted from museums in occupied Crimea
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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 Benin artefacts would be exhibited in a new museum to be called the Edo Museum of West African Art
After years of delay and political distraction, the official opening of the new Grand Egyptian Museum finally took place in the shadow of the pyramids on the evening of November 1st attended by monarchs, world leaders, heads of state and government