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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“Modern morality,” wrote Oscar Wilde, “consists in accepting the standard of one’s age.” But how can museums define the moral standard of our age when constrained by historic rules of stewardship and the absence of a modern ethical framework?
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