The museum insists that heirs to the original collector waited too long to file their claim for the valuable work on paper

Ethiopian Heritage Authority asked to contact vendor to request restitution of battle trophy taken following British expeditionary force's punitive siege of Maqdala in 1868

The museum switched off comments on one of its Instagram posts after it was flooded with calls for the restitution of the moai objects

Mark Jones also says BP deal is the ‘right one’ and announces recovered items show

An innovative agreement between the Metropolitan Museum, American businessman Leonard N. Stern and the Greek government led to the new display of 161 Cycladic antiquities at the New York museum

The Ackland Art Museum restituted a painting taken from a prominent Jewish collector via Nazi coercion

The two works on paper once belonged to Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian cabaret performer who was killed in the Holocaust

The decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals leaves the heirs of Lilly Cassirer with few options to pursue their restitution claim

But her most important reform proposal faces opposition from the state of Bavaria

There are some very spurious arguments coming from those resisting the return of the marbles to Greece

Country’s culture minister calls for research into artefacts held by British institutions and also announces a Royal Academy show

Latest restitution of work by Cornelis van Haarlem is part of years-long campaign to reunite works with family of Dutch-Jewish dealer

The prime minister can now approve the return of remains of up to 500 years old, without having to pass a special law

The Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art, released on 3 December 1998, are non-binding but nevertheless continue to enable the pursuit of justice

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office linked one of the works to Kapoor; another had been in the Rubin Museum’s collection

The war in Gaza casts a dark shadow over 2023

The annual Christmas cracker joke competition by the British TV channel Gold took a swipe at the theft scandal that rocked the institution

From the theft of artefacts at the British Museum to a hammer attack on Velázquez’s “The Rokeby Venus”

The snub comes after Kyriakos Mitsotakis raised restitution issue with Labour leader Keir Starmer

New panel is to find “fair and just solutions” for disputed works in museums

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