A contract transferring ownership to Nigeria is planned for spring 2022

Returning objects to their original homes is a way of righting past wrongs. But there's more to it than that

The boutique firm will continue to work from the same offices, but wants to take on riskier contingency cases

The exhibition Benin: the Restitution of 26 Works from the Royal Treasures of Abomey at Musée du quai Branly–Jacques Chirac will be on view for five days in October

At the ceremony in London, the Ethiopian ambassador renewed calls for museums to return Maqdala objects

The decision ends a bitter dispute that damaged the reputation of Dutch restitution policy

Before the discovery of the more than 50 painted blocks, “the richness of Mannaean civilisation had not been appreciated”, expert says

A previous version of the show was due to open in 2018, but was cancelled at short notice. Now it is being shunned.

Lawyers and collectors weigh in on new rule that sets a 30-year limit on claims to property that was stolen by Nazis and Communist leaders

"The decision to return the works is the culmination of years of research and due diligence," the Canberra museum says

The commission said the work's history touches four families who had been “oppressed, robbed, deported, driven to flee or murdered”

Italian senate approved resolution that could pave the way to restitutions as politicians call for return of Ancient Greek bronze also known as Atleta di Fano

Collection of the lawyer and collector Armand Isaac Dorville was sold after his death in an estate sale that the state argues was not forced

An exhibition at the Pompidou in Paris is currently paying tribute to the Jewish collector

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation aims for the first restitutions to Nigeria next year, requests “detailed timetable” for negotiations

Bilateral accord to include projects to conserve, research, and store restituted items

The 17th-century oba head was plucked from the Nigerian National Museum and given to Elizabeth II as a thank-you gift

The Benin Court plaques donated in 1991 with more than 150 other works, have been deaccessioned, while a third object, an Ife Head offered for purchase, will instead be restituted

New report provides guidelines for the return of artefacts to Africa, where Belgium controlled territory that was 80 times its size

Cultural institutions—like religious buildings—can be spaces of good and harm, we cannot simply denounce their histories as one or the other, says museum director Nicholas Thomas

New government initiative MuseumsLab aims to foster more international co-operation and consider topics including decolonisation and restitution

“We are facing up to our historical and moral responsibility”, says culture minister Monika Grütters

Aberdeen University is returning its looted 18th-century oba head to the Nigerian federal government

Around 160 institutions hold looted Benin artefacts, but how many are prepared to give them back? We asked museums in five countries for their position on restitution

With institutions across the globe rethinking their views on restitution, the African country’s focus is now on making a home for its heritage

An exhibition at the National Museum of Finland will celebrate the objects' repatriation to the Sámi Museum and Nature Centre Siida in northern Lapland

The collection of 18th-century porcelain was previously exhibited in Dutch museums

The agreement overturns the Restitution Committee's 2013 rejection of the claim, which argued the painting was worth more to the museum than the heirs

As restitution momentum builds, director of Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art says it could lead discussions for the return of looted Benin objects in US museum collections

Apple Tree II, once confused for Roses Under the Trees, was returned to the wrong family 20 years ago, leaving the heirs of its original owner facing huge obstacles to get it back