Cultural Restitution
July 28, 2022
UKRAINE
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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
More News
It’s no easy matter resolving the current ethical debate over the retention and exhibition of human remains. But one public collection is asking visitors to cast their vote
“Would be nice to have a more frank discussion about how objects are collected for the Museum. Saying ‘Donated’ is not enough”
Last week, a delegation of Naga people signed a declaration that will lead to the return of 41 Naga ancestral remains currently held in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford