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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This week’s announcement that Cambridge University has transferred legal ownership of its collection of 116 Benin artefacts to Nigeria could be hugely significant
Britain’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has confirmed it will review the exclusion it imposed on national collections that prevents them from returning cultural objects on moral grounds
Six Native American skulls, acquired to advance the pseudoscience of phrenology, have been returned by the University of Edinburgh to the Muscogee Nation, a self-governed Native American Tribal Nation