Opinion
The British Government Should Return Tipu’s Treasures to India
The UK government’s attempted export ban on Tipu Sultan’s treasures is a double travesty for objects it acquired through loot and plunder.
Repatriation
Opinion
How the Met Museum Justifies Looting
The African Origins exhibition ignores the fact that approximately 160 objects from Benin are held by the museum under ongoing demands for their repatriation.
Art
Returned to Nepal by the FBI, a Sculpture Becomes a God Again
Last week, I flew to Nepal and witnessed a ceremony to replace a looted Lakshmi-Narayan sculpture to its original location.
News
A Portal Tracks Objects Acquired by German Institutions Through Colonialism
Gerke Dunkhase estimates that only half of the Benin bronzes in Germany are logged on the portal so far, calling the current database a “prototype” of what’s to come.
News
In Ceremony, Met Museum Officially Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
The museum and the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments entered into a shared agreement to collaborate on mutual loans of Benin objects and other “exchanges of expertise and art.”
News
Smithsonian Takes Benin Bronzes Off Display, Considers Repatriation
The National Museum of African Art identified 16 objects from its collection with direct links to the British army’s 1897 punitive raid on the Kingdom of Benin.
News
Nearly 250 Antiquities Repatriated to India
Almost all of the antiquities, worth an estimated $15 million, were seized from the disgraced antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor.
News
Looted 16th-century Manuscripts Are Returned to Mexico's National Archive
At least 10 stolen documents that had been illegally taken from Mexico’s National Archive were ultimately identified.
News
Smithsonian Repatriates Sacred Items to the Siksika Nation
The two objects will again be utilized in Siksika ceremonies.
News
Looted Ethiopian Artifacts Withdrawn from Sale at British Auction House
The withdrawal prompted negotiations for the potential repatriation of the Coptic Bible and horn beakers.
News
Smithsonian Returns a Pre-Incan Gold Ornament to Peru
The repatriated item, an “Echenique Disc,” is recognized as the symbol of the city of Cusco in Peru.
News
After Five Decades in San Francisco, Two Lintels Repatriated to Thailand
The 1,500-pound lintels from the ninth and 10th centuries hail from protected religious sanctuaries in northeastern Thailand.