Repatriation

Wellcome Collection to return 2,000 manuscripts in landmark agreement

Museum says Jain texts were acquired ‘against the best interests of their original owners’

Regimental museum returns items to Ethiopia

Collections research work at Kings Own Royal Regiment Museum supported by Museums Association’s Esmée Fairbairn Communities and Collections Fund

Irish culture minister says restitution of heritage from UK ‘needs to be examined’

Dáil members call for return of artefacts taken from Ireland by former colonial powers

Natural History Museum repatriates ancestral remains to Japan

Ceremony held in London this week to mark formal transfer of seven Ainu individuals

Brighton & Hove Museums to repatriate 45 artefacts to Botswana

Return of collection was requested by Khama III Memorial Museum in 2022

Ashmolean returns 16th-century bronze taken from Hindu temple

Icon repatriated to India after scholar raised provenance concerns

Cambridge University transfers ownership of 116 Benin bronzes to Nigeria

Move could have a ‘domino effect’ among other western institutions, says federal body

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Ancestors’ dignity cannot wait for repatriation

The Horniman's Heba Abd el Gawad on the ethics of storing human remains

Parliamentary group urges museums to take action on human remains

MP says sector must find an ‘ethical and accountable way forward’ in House of Commons briefing

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When charity law meets restitution

Two experts explain the new legal provisions making it easier for some museums to return artefacts on moral grounds

Profile | ‘I’ve been to prison several times. It’s no big deal’

Our guest editor Gary Younge meets restitution activist Mwazulu Diyabanza, who explains why he is taking the law into his own hands

Political row delays opening of Nigeria’s Museum of West African Art

Edo state governor revokes land ownership rights in dispute over museum’s name and mission