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

The view of Dresden's Zwinger moat had been returned to the heirs of Max Emden and will now be offered for sale in London on 28 July

Panel will consider museums' argument that a trial over rightful ownership of the Guelph Treasure cannot be heard in American courts

Real estate developer Bruce Toll claims compensation after French High court confirms return of Pissarro's Pea Harvest to heirs of collector Simon Bauer

Academics challenge the provenance of the Edo plaque as well as two Igbo alusi figures that sold under estimate for €212,500

Officials in Poland and Sweden piece together provenance of work by School of Lucas Cranach the Elder

Five demonstrators will go to court on charges of theft

London institution was criticised for proclaiming that it "stands in solidarity with the Black community" while continuing to resist calls to restitute colonial-era loot

From art restitutions to how museum adapted to wartime constraints, we continue to feel the fallout 75 years after the conflict’s end

"Museums have always been controversial. Who should be allowed in? And on what terms?" asks the celebrated classicist

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery wants to work in tandem with the Benin Dialogue Group, which is made up of institutions that hold the majority of the pieces

Arts Council England will release a document that addresses the ethical and practical issues around restituting cultural objects, planned for autumn 2020

Move is intended to stall the sales of stakes in multi-million-Euro companies based in Portugal

Last week’s decision to reject an appeal over the ownership of Picasso’s The Actor was a missed opportunity to clarify the limitations of the 2016 HEAR Act

Negotiations are ongoing, but the Foreign Office says releasing 1972 documents on the claim “would harm UK relations with Zambia”

Countries' rush to restitute objects is part of the problem, says Belgian lawyer

Andrea della Robbia’s Mary Magdalene was acquired by Hermann Göring in 1941

But the clause is unlikely to refer to the ancient Greek sculptures in the British Museum, expert says