The skulls of King Toera and two warriors were held at Paris's Natural History Museum since 1899

A crisis that began as an uproar over how the Bavarian State Painting Collections handles Nazi-looted art has widened as Bernhard Maaz “clears the way for a new beginning,” according to the state minister

The UK's Spoliation Advisory Panel says the work was taken by the Nazis as “an act of racial persecution”

The 350-year-old artifact is one of seven objects returned to the Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo Native American tribe

Open Restitution Africa’s digital resource based on pan-continental research counters elevation of Western narratives

The Supreme Court’s order requires the decades-long dispute over a painting at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid to be re-examined in light of a new California statute

The ancient statue, a museum fixture since the 1990s, will return to its rightful home following a voluntary restitution

The state’s culture minister has responded to an outcry after a newspaper reported that the Bavarian State Painting Collections keeps an unpublished internal list of 200 Nazi-looted works in its possession

The stories of Bruno Lohse, the SS officer who oversaw Göring’s store of looted art, and the Jewish dealer Max Stern, whose heirs fought to recover art stolen by the Gestapo, are recreated on screen

To make progress in returning countries’ heritage taken by previous generations, museums must take a pragmatic, ethical stance

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