The Anatolian artefact had been on long-term loan to London's Victoria & Albert Museum, although not on display. Restitution is a complex issue, but in this case it was the right move

Expert says there is a "long list of returns expected from museums", as Cambodia cites new evidence of war-time looting

The piece was part of the Gilbert Collection which is not bound by the same legal restrictions around deaccessioning as the London museum

A farewell exhibition, due to be visited by French President Emmanuel Macron this week, is being hosted at the French museum. But the West African nation is "not satisfied" with the partial restitution

The work was bought by Armand Dorville, a Jewish lawyer, but his heirs were forced to sell it at an auction in France

The Cavedone studies were among 750 drawings plundered from the Czech villa of Arthur Feldmann, a Jewish lawyer who died in the Holocaust

A contract transferring ownership to Nigeria is planned for spring 2022

Returning objects to their original homes is a way of righting past wrongs. But there's more to it than that

The boutique firm will continue to work from the same offices, but wants to take on riskier contingency cases

The exhibition Benin: the Restitution of 26 Works from the Royal Treasures of Abomey at Musée du quai Branly–Jacques Chirac will be on view for five days in October

At the ceremony in London, the Ethiopian ambassador renewed calls for museums to return Maqdala objects

The decision ends a bitter dispute that damaged the reputation of Dutch restitution policy

Before the discovery of the more than 50 painted blocks, “the richness of Mannaean civilisation had not been appreciated”, expert says

A previous version of the show was due to open in 2018, but was cancelled at short notice. Now it is being shunned.

Lawyers and collectors weigh in on new rule that sets a 30-year limit on claims to property that was stolen by Nazis and Communist leaders

"The decision to return the works is the culmination of years of research and due diligence," the Canberra museum says

The commission said the work's history touches four families who had been “oppressed, robbed, deported, driven to flee or murdered”

Italian senate approved resolution that could pave the way to restitutions as politicians call for return of Ancient Greek bronze also known as Atleta di Fano

Collection of the lawyer and collector Armand Isaac Dorville was sold after his death in an estate sale that the state argues was not forced

An exhibition at the Pompidou in Paris is currently paying tribute to the Jewish collector

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation aims for the first restitutions to Nigeria next year, requests “detailed timetable” for negotiations

Bilateral accord to include projects to conserve, research, and store restituted items

The 17th-century oba head was plucked from the Nigerian National Museum and given to Elizabeth II as a thank-you gift

The Benin Court plaques donated in 1991 with more than 150 other works, have been deaccessioned, while a third object, an Ife Head offered for purchase, will instead be restituted

New report provides guidelines for the return of artefacts to Africa, where Belgium controlled territory that was 80 times its size

Cultural institutions—like religious buildings—can be spaces of good and harm, we cannot simply denounce their histories as one or the other, says museum director Nicholas Thomas

New government initiative MuseumsLab aims to foster more international co-operation and consider topics including decolonisation and restitution

“We are facing up to our historical and moral responsibility”, says culture minister Monika Grütters

Aberdeen University is returning its looted 18th-century oba head to the Nigerian federal government

Around 160 institutions hold looted Benin artefacts, but how many are prepared to give them back? We asked museums in five countries for their position on restitution