Restitution claims for the Lubomirski and Ossolinski collections are complicated by the history of Lviv’s occupiers

Critics pointed out that the AAMD has no enforcement provision for members who violate its guidelines, not even its own mediation process

Veteran’s reluctant admission of taking plunder clinches case

Stolen in 1945 from a Polish prince’s museum, it is now thought to be in Bavaria

The change of regime in the Democratic Republic of Congo coincided with thefts from the Institut des Musées Nationaux

The collection was stolen during Nazi occupation of France

A survey touching all the bases, including losses, recoveries, legal debates, and cultural restitution

“A very happy occasion” as painting looted by American soldiers returns home

But negotiations continue between Chancellor Kohl and President Yeltsin

Newly declassified records track the deposit of Nazi assets in Swiss banks—they include references to works of art

In the last of our series which publishes talks given in London this summer, Professor Sir John Boardman, Lincoln Professor Emeritus of classical archaeology and art at Oxford, singles out three areas for concern.

Dube reacts angrily to Russian delays over restitution and responds to the opposition of Irina Antonova, veteran director of the Pushkin Museum

As the Red Army pushed back the Nazi invaders in 1944, a pair of Soviet art historians compiled a list of masterpieces from Europe’s museums to be brought back to Moscow

About 150 items from the collection will be displayed at the exhibition

A commission will be set up at Gorbachev’s behest to look into cultural property removed to U.S.S.R.

After decades of pretending to know nothing about it, Mainz University library reluctantly returns Nazi loot of precious books

Where is the world-famous antique glass from the Berlin Antiquarium? What has happened to the coin collection of the Royal Prussian Mint? Where is the precious antique jewellery from the Zahn-Bibliotek?