Cultural Restitution

July 28, 2022
UKRAINE
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UKRAINE

Updated July 2026

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


July 2026

Ukraine's military has published a new handbook that sets out the military's obligations under international humanitarian law to protect cultural property

Lootedart.com


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

The Baltic Times


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

Cultural Property News


July 2022

Ukrainian authorities uncover a trove of ancient Scythian weapons believed to have been looted from museums in occupied Crimea

OCCRP





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By Lewis Mcnaught • September 22, 2026
Campaigners for ending the public display and sale of human remains will be encouraged by this month’s news from the DCMS that it plans to review its Guidance for the Care of Human Remains in Museums

Andy Burnham makes U-turn on the Parthenon Marbles

By Lewis Mcnaught • September 7, 2026
After assuming the UK’s highest office, another British prime minister has changed his mind about returning the Parthenon Marbles to Greece. Was this predictable?

United States urged not to renew a cultural property agreement with Egypt

By Lewis Mcnaught • May 31, 2026
The USA is being urged not to renew a five-year cultural property agreement with the Arab Republic of Egypt, on the grounds Egypt has prioritised ‘prestige megaprojects’ and ‘political spectacle’ over site protection and collections management