Cultural Restitution

December 1, 2019
VENEZUELA
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Updated November 2019 

Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made by Venezuela to a country or community of source.  Entries are updated regularly.


January 2018
Venezuela repatriates 196 pre-Colombian stone and ceramic artefacts, seized between 2010 and 2014, to National Museum of Costa Rica


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December 5, 2025
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
November 25, 2025
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
November 11, 2025
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