Cultural Restitution
July 26, 2020
YEMEN
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Republic of Yemen
Updated July 2020
Below is a schedule of restitutions made by Yemen and /or news relating to restitutions.
Entries are updated regularly
July 2020
After five years of bloody conflict Yemen seeks to recover articles smuggled out of the country
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Can museum visitors throw light on objects that lack a reliable history, description or provenance? Manchester Museum hopes they can
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 artefacts would be exhibited in a new museum to be called the Edo Museum of West African Art