Under former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who in October was replaced by Claudia Sheinbaum, 14,000 artefacts were returned over a period of eight years

A new film focuses on two paintings Stern was forced to sell as the Nazis rose to power in the 1930s, which ended up at the Düsseldorf City Museum

Political turmoil across the continent is hampering plans for national structures to return colonial-era heritage. But the UK, once a laggard, appears to be preparing to review laws

The Southern Baptist peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia, was a dedicated amateur portraitist and made a deep cultural impact when in office

The French culture minister insists the move is “a handover, not a restitution, in that these objects have never been part of French public collections”

The city has returned 68 objects to Indonesia, a former Dutch colony

The items, which include a vessel and bracelet, had been gifted to a US soldier more than 50 years ago

An Ivorian drum will be returned—though only under a special “deposit agreement”—while a crucial colonial bill has stalled

The dramatic revamp of the Italian institution’s Gallery of the Kings is part of a broader renovation that is due to complete in 2025

The headline-making director-general of Unesco, who clashed with Reagan and Thatcher, died recently at the age of 103

Richard Semmel, a Jewish textiles entrepreneur in Berlin, was forced to sell the painting after fleeing Nazi persecution in 1933

The painting depicting the prodigal son was sold by Eduard Fuchs, a Communist writer, after his escape into exile in 1933

Exhibition of 2,500 repatriated objects, including the "Lombok treasure", inaugurates the newly refurbished space

A New York-based organisation had sought to block the artefacts’ return to Nigeria

A bone and lock of hair apparently belonging to Piet Hein have been in storage at the Dutch museum for centuries—now there are calls to have them returned to his grave

Missing for more than 80 years, the 1865 pastel will be handed over in a ceremony today after the couple who bought it relinquished it voluntarily

If governments are committed to the Washington Principles, they should create a co-ordinating body

Withdrawn from auction in February, the shield will make a stop at the Toledo Museum of Art before going on public display at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa

The repatriations show policy continuity despite the new right-wing government, experts say

The new law signed by Governor Gavin Newsom is intended to resolve a decades-long restitution claim in a California family’s favour

The restitutions are seen as reflective of the way museums are paying closer attention to the provenance of works in their collections

"Over Vitebsk" by Marc Chagall hung at the Museum of Modern Art for decades until 2020, when it was restituted to the the heirs of a Jewish-owned art gallery in 1930s Berlin

The portrait of the Duke of Saxony, attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop, will be auctioned by Christie’s in New York in January 2025

The Kurdish artist delves into the histories of looted artefacts and questions the ethics of their existence in Western museums

‘If an artwork is located in the US, its fate cannot be decided in any other state, and any wrong decisions cannot be corrected elsewhere’

The 1918 drawing had been in the possession of another Austrian Jewish family, which recently became suspicious of the work's provenance and contacted Grünbaum’s heirs directly in order to “do the right thing”

The former antiquities minister is also demanding that three Egyptian treasures, including the Rosetta Stone, be sent to his home country

The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art has defended its decision to hand back two objects to the Oba rather than the government

Objects from the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum are on loan to the Asante king, while the Fowler Museum has transferred ownership of seven items

Complexities of restitution, the relevance of the universal museum and burgeoning collections were all on the event's agenda