Cultural Restitution

December 1, 2019
VENEZUELA
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Venezuela

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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