Many believe new applications—from AI and NFTs to 3D scanning—are game changing in returning objects to source communities. Lawyers say they can make the process harder

Vienna museums sued for return of works held by collector murdered in Dachau

The landscape was in the possession of the family of an American soldier who had served in post-war Germany

The painting, acquired by Augustus III, hung in a Soviet general’s home after the war

A pilot project will begin operating in February 2024

Wide-ranging nationwide survey will catalogue artefacts held by monasteries and convents that were collected by missionaries in Africa, Asia and South America

Christie’s will offer six of the seven pieces by Schiele that were restituted to heirs of Fritz Grünbaum last month during its November sales in New York

The great temple to Athena has emerged from the vicissitudes of earthquakes, war, looting and rebuilding to be caught up in a monumental restitution debate

Discussions about the return of the ancient Greek artefacts have likely slipped down the British Museum's list of priorities. Here, Alexander Herman, the author of a just-published book on the subject, tells us why the museum can ill afford to neglect the matter for long

Two social media influencers—Pancake Fruit and Summer Sister—are behind the series posted on Douyin

The repatriation ceremony at the San Bernardino County Museum was timed to coincide with the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month in the US and Mexican Independence Day

The seven drawings, seized from public and private collections throughout the US, are collectively valued at nearly $10m

The artefacts, dating from the third millenium BC, will remain in New York as Yemen’s civil war drags on

Claudia Roth says the commission’s current mandate is “inadequate” and “we are not living up to our responsibilities"

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office ordered the seizure of works at the Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Museums and Allen Memorial Art Museum

The advisory commission said it sees the current framework as “unsatisfactory” and “in need of an urgent overhaul”

To make the British Museum fit for the 21st century it must create a comprehensive publicly accessible database of its entire collection, argues Dan Hicks, curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford

Other Greek treasures would come to London in exchange for a loan of the contested sculptures

Meanwhile, Tory MP accuses Greece of "blatant opportunism" over missing items

The lawyer and activist may play a key role in negotiating the return of Benin bronzes

The spear, digging stick, cudgel and net were brought home by German missionaries nearly 200 years ago

Six of the eight allegedly looted objects were donated to the museum by Emma C. Bunker, an associate of smuggler Douglas Latchford

The museum has agreed to return the life-size marble statue “Wounded Indian” to the Boston-based Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association

A skull relief carving hailing from the ancient Mayan city of Chichén Itzá has been repatriated

The descendants of the €200m collection's Jewish former owners had appealed a 2022 regional court ruling

The artefacts, valued at a total of $1.26m, changed hands with a repatriation ceremony

The museum's director says works with dubious provenance are 'a stain in the collections of the Louvre'

Restitution dispute between Chrysler Museum of Art in Virginia and Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association came close to a deal in 2020

The Chrysler Museum of Art repatriated the ancient sculpture following the recent discovery of photographic evidence

The Rijksmuseum will return six colonial artefacts, for the first time in its history