Though African institutions want looted artefacts to return home, they are more preoccupied with promoting living artists and treasures

We speak to museum experts András Szántó and Sonia Lawson. Plus, Dan Hicks on the legacy of colonial looting and National Gallery curator Christopher Riopelle on the Polish painter Jan Matejko

Turbulent year draws to a close with sector wracked by pandemic lockdowns and Black Lives Matter challenges

Alfred Hammerstein’s departure follows criticism of Dutch committee’s decisions

The 18th-century work was stolen by the museum's namesake from an active temple over 100 years ago

The Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project will begin with a pilot scheme focusing on the Old Masters collection of Adolphe Schloss, which was seized by the Gestapo

Senate approves bill to return 27 colonial-era artefacts from museum collections to Africa within one year

Government extends pilot project to return objects to Indigenous peoples—including those held by private collectors

Tributes pour in for “defender of African art”—who was also being investigated by Angolan authorities

Medieval vellum manuscript has been donated to University College Cork by Chatsworth, seat of the Dukes of Devonshire

Congolese activist Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza, fined €1,000 earlier this month, will go to court again later today

The complaint also demands compensation for four further works by Mondrian no longer at the Krefeld museum

Bénédicte Savoy—co-author of the Sarr-Savoy report that recommends France return its African artefacts—warns of "collective amnesia" over restitution debates that happened 40 years ago

The Golden Age work by Aelbert Cuyp was looted from Jacques Goudstikker and acquired by Hermann Göring

Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza and the other activists who removed the object from display at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac say their actions are a protest against colonial looting

The report calls for a new panel to advise the minister on repatriations and a new provenance research centre

The curator and University of Oxford professor tells us about his new book, The Brutish Museums, which details how museums themselves were “used as a unique type of weapon”

Accelerated bill enabling restitution of 27 objects from French museums passes first vote in parliament

Ruling by Paris court of appeal sets an important precedent for pending restitution claim over 16 paintings in French museum collections

New text accompanying object removes mention that it was collected by Captain James Cook but museum says it doesn't alter its significance

Isaiah Ogundele, who demonstrated outside the Museum of London, Docklands for the objects' repatriation, failed to appear at his court hearing earlier this month

Exhibiting Tsantsas "reinforced racist and stereotypical thinking that goes against the museum’s core values,” says the Pitt Rivers Museum's director

Defendant was charged with using “threatening, abusive, insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause harassment, alarm or distress” during incident in January

Human remains in museums have attracted widespread criticism

Judges noted the Spanish government, which signed the Washington Principles in 1998, “can preen as moralistic in its declarations”, yet not be bound by them

As the Black Lives Matter movement goes global, museums face renewed demands to restitute artefacts plundered from Africa

The 93-year-old heir Grete Unger Heinz recalls contemplating a Jacopo del Sellaio painting as a child in Vienna

Family of Gustav Arens also receive French government compensation for a Tintoretto painting and a Dutch landscape

Twenty-six objects looted from Abomey Palace to return to Benin, Omar Tall’s sword to be transferred to Senegal

Le Palais Ducal is at the centre of an ownership dispute that has kept the work from coming to auction