Repatriation
Indian government challenges British newspaper report that it is making 'largest repatriation claim' against UK
Sources state that demands made for thousands of objects in British collections have been "significantly overstated", and that the report is "misleading"
Amid mounting scrutiny of its collecting practices, Metropolitan Museum will form provenance research squad
The museum has responded to accusations that its collection includes looted artefacts by creating its largest research arm to date
The Metropolitan Museum will return 15 sculptures sold by trafficker Subhash Kapoor to India
The repatriation comes after a report found more than 1,000 works linked to suspected or convicted traffickers in the museum’s collection
Questions remain about the fate of Wounded Knee Massacre objects repatriated to Lakota and Sioux nations
After a repatriation ceremony last November, members of Indigenous communities debate what to do with objects long held at the Founders Museum
Mexican authorities condemn French auction of pre-Columbian artefacts
In all, 83 artefacts scheduled to be sold in Paris next week are protected under Mexican law, authorities say
Netherlands returns Indigenous remains to Caribbean island Sint Eustatius
The small Dutch Carribean island has recovered bone fragments and artefacts uncovered in a Dutch archaeological dig more than 30 years ago
Toronto museum returns objects to family of famous Cree leader
The Royal Ontario Museum returned an ornate saddlebag and ceramic pipe to descendants of Poundmaker
Smithsonian to display 77 looted artefacts from Yemen in shared stewardship agreement
The artefacts will go on view at the National Museum of Asian Art, rather than be returned to Yemen, due to the ongoing humanitarian crisis there
Authorities in New York return 14 looted artefacts valued at $2.5m to Italy, including a black-figure hydria by the renowned Priam Painter
The repatriated artefacts were looted by an international network of “high-profile antiquities traffickers and smugglers, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office
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Looted archaeological artefacts worth more than $20m returned to Italy
The 60 objects included some that had been on display at the Metropolitan Museum and several that had been bought by billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt
US returns stolen artefact to Palestine as part of investigation into New York collector Michael Steinhardt
The US government has returned a looted ivory spoon in the first repatriation exchange between the two countries
US government returns looted sarcophagus to Egypt
A trafficked coffin that may have belonged to an ancient priest has been returned
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New and refurbished museums open in Antwerp, Los Angeles and Sydney as Italian archaeologists make the "discovery of a generation" in a hilltop town in Tuscany
US officials return antiquities looted from Iraq Museum in 2003
The artefacts, cylinder and stamp seals dating back thousands of years, were seized after a US collector tried to sell one in an online auction
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The Netherlands returns more than 200 pre-Hispanic artefacts to Mexico
In all, 223 pre-Hispanic objects have been repatriated to Mexico by the Dutch government, largely through the power of social media
Secret talks between British Museum and Greece to return Parthenon Marbles in 'advanced stages'
If a deal is finalised, the contested sculptures are expected to be returned to Greece in early 2023, and will be displayed at the Acropolis Museum in Athens
National Museum of Scotland to repatriate looted totem pole
The museum will transfer the totem pole to the Nisga’a Nation of British Columbia
Canada’s museums urged to overhaul practices to empower Indigenous peoples
Country’s museums association says institutions must involve Indigenous people in “every element” of their work
Massachusetts museum repatriates Wounded Knee Massacre artefacts to Lakota and Sioux nations
The Founders Museum, a small institution housed in a library, returned a variety of tribal objects to their rightful owners in South Dakota
Alleged Native American scalp seized from auction house specialised in Confederate and Nazi memorabilia
Authorities received an anonymous tip regarding an object listed for sale on the auction house’s website and described as a Mescalero Apache scalp
Manhattan district attorney returns 187 artefacts tied to disgraced dealer Subhash Kapoor to Pakistan
The objects associated with Kapoor, along with another five pieces returned to Pakistan, were cumulatively valued at $3.4m
Three decades ago, US museums were told to report all Native remains in their collections—so why are they still there?
American institutions have catalogued 208,698 entries since the law went into effect in 1990—but less than half of those holdings have been repatriated
Stolen statue linked to antiquities trafficker Doris Wiener repatriated to Cambodia
The sandstone vishnu statue was stolen from a seventh-century temple and smuggled to Manhattan in 1995, when it was sold to a private collector
Anthropologist opposed to Indigenous repatriation sues university for alleged threats to her free speech
Professor Elizabeth Weiss has filed a lawsuit against San José State University claiming she was disciplined for expressing her view that repatriation favours religion over science
Trove of Benin bronzes in US museum collections repatriated to Nigeria
The National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum marked the return of the sculptures with a ceremony in Washington, DC
London's Wellcome Collection returns remains of death camp victim to Denmark
Research carried out in 2019 helped identify the remains as Preben Holger Larsen, a 26-year-old artist and member of the Danish resistance
FBI returns 2,000-year-old Roman mosaic discovered in Los Angeles to Italy
The mosaic, which features a portrait of Medusa and had been cut into 16 pieces, was returned to Rome by the FBI’s Art Crime Team