Top Indian sculpture dealer warns against a too rigid interpretation of the 1970 Unesco Convention

Mwazulu Diyabanza says that “museums do not deserve respect” as restitution debate intensifies

Vote by National Assembly paves the way for the return of 27 colonial-era artefacts to Benin and Senegal within one year, but “will not create a legal precedent”

Deputies rejected senators' proposal for a national council to advise the government on future restitution claims

Ruling upholds controversial decision by the beleaguered Dutch Restitutions Committee but counters an independent review

The question of restitution as well as a new order of north-south relations should be top of the agenda, says George Abungu an international adviser to the project

The government's treatment of claims for art plundered by Nazis has come under fire for placing interests of museums over "legal redress for injustice"

Though African institutions want looted artefacts to return home, they are more preoccupied with promoting living artists and treasures

We speak to museum experts András Szántó and Sonia Lawson. Plus, Dan Hicks on the legacy of colonial looting and National Gallery curator Christopher Riopelle on the Polish painter Jan Matejko

Turbulent year draws to a close with sector wracked by pandemic lockdowns and Black Lives Matter challenges

Alfred Hammerstein’s departure follows criticism of Dutch committee’s decisions

The 18th-century work was stolen by the museum's namesake from an active temple over 100 years ago

The Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project will begin with a pilot scheme focusing on the Old Masters collection of Adolphe Schloss, which was seized by the Gestapo

Senate approves bill to return 27 colonial-era artefacts from museum collections to Africa within one year

Government extends pilot project to return objects to Indigenous peoples—including those held by private collectors

Tributes pour in for “defender of African art”—who was also being investigated by Angolan authorities

Medieval vellum manuscript has been donated to University College Cork by Chatsworth, seat of the Dukes of Devonshire

Congolese activist Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza, fined €1,000 earlier this month, will go to court again later today

The complaint also demands compensation for four further works by Mondrian no longer at the Krefeld museum

Bénédicte Savoy—co-author of the Sarr-Savoy report that recommends France return its African artefacts—warns of "collective amnesia" over restitution debates that happened 40 years ago

The Golden Age work by Aelbert Cuyp was looted from Jacques Goudstikker and acquired by Hermann Göring

Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza and the other activists who removed the object from display at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac say their actions are a protest against colonial looting

The report calls for a new panel to advise the minister on repatriations and a new provenance research centre

The curator and University of Oxford professor tells us about his new book, The Brutish Museums, which details how museums themselves were “used as a unique type of weapon”

Accelerated bill enabling restitution of 27 objects from French museums passes first vote in parliament

Ruling by Paris court of appeal sets an important precedent for pending restitution claim over 16 paintings in French museum collections

New text accompanying object removes mention that it was collected by Captain James Cook but museum says it doesn't alter its significance

Isaiah Ogundele, who demonstrated outside the Museum of London, Docklands for the objects' repatriation, failed to appear at his court hearing earlier this month

Exhibiting Tsantsas "reinforced racist and stereotypical thinking that goes against the museum’s core values,” says the Pitt Rivers Museum's director

Defendant was charged with using “threatening, abusive, insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause harassment, alarm or distress” during incident in January