Stolen artefacts will be given back to Nigeria, India and a Native American tribe

The case of the Birds' Head Haggadah is the first time a museum in Israel has faced a restitution lawsuit for an object allegedly lost in the Holocaust

The two-metre-tall statue, which the museum acquired for $2.5m in 1986, was allegedly excavated illegally in the 1970s

Repeated requests by Mexican politicians to return the crown have been rebuffed

Victor Ehikhamenor's towering work has been placed beside the building's memorial to the man who led the plunder of the Benin bronzes in 1897

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow acquired moccasins, a necklace and a child’s bonnet after the Wounded Knee Massacre

A group of skulls is being handed over to a Native Hawaiian group during a mission this month to receive dozens of items from German and Austrian museums

The full story of colonial plundering lies not in museum displays but in unopened, uncatalogued boxes in store rooms

Four years after a landmark pledge to hand back colonial loot, French government has opposed a new restitution bill backed by the Senate

The mass restitution is expected to be endorsed by the French Senate on 15 February

Ice Skating by Adam van Breen was acquired by Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler’s second-in-command, and bequeathed to the city of Trier’s museum in 1987

The auction house will help the Parisian institution research the history of items purchased between 1933 and 1945, which "may lead to restitutions"

Committee led by Jonathan Fine of Vienna’s Weltmuseum may pave the way for new legislation

Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle seeks "proactive repatriation" after "forceful removal" by British troops in 1897

The researchers are investigating the origins of 200 artefacts from Cameroon at Munich’s Museum Fünf Kontinente

Claudia Roth says she will rethink Humboldt Forum and set up a central “green culture” desk in the country

Government museums body takes control of repatriated artefacts after ruler of Benin challenges new trust set up to unify Nigerian claimants

Though country was not a colonial power, major museums in Vienna have acquisitions of colonial goods

Acropolis Museum director says the move could pave the way for reunification of works held in London

New law will set up expert commission to sift through thousands of objects at the Royal Museum for Central Africa

In podcast interview, Ed Vaizey supports restitution but outlines the complex arguments around the debate

Kunstmuseum Bern announces results of in-depth provenance investigation of controversial 2014 bequest

Repatriation could lead to resolution in other cases of looted art in museums

The Art Newspaper team picks apart this year’s most important developments, from demands for colonial restitution to the return of culture wars

Ethnological museum in the port city has one of Germany's largest collections of Benin treasures

Zurich museum's displays of the collection of arms dealer Emil Georg Bührle have prompted criticism and a national debate

As Jesus College confronts its ties to slavery, the Pakistani Neo-miniature artist asks whether decolonisation need necessarily be a violent process

The museum is “eager to work with the relevant parties in Nigeria” to restitute the sculpture

Newly released documents from the 1990s state: "This is an issue on which we can never win"

Two 16th century brass plaques and a 14th century Ife head have been returned to Nigeria