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

An all-party parliamentary group headed by the MP for Streatham aims to “start a discussion and educate people”

The director of the Pitt Rivers Museum says the report is a step in the restitution process

The British Prime Minister met with Greek leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who reiterates that the ancient sculptures should be shown at the Acropolis Museum

Kyriakos Mitsotakis wants to send ‘cultural treasures’ in exchange for ‘stolen’ sculptures

The 13 Mayan objects were handed back in a ceremony in Berlin today

“We cannot build for the future without making our best effort at healing the wounds of the past,” the museum’s director says

The Anatolian artefact had been on long-term loan to London's Victoria & Albert Museum, although not on display. Restitution is a complex issue, but in this case it was the right move

Expert says there is a "long list of returns expected from museums", as Cambodia cites new evidence of war-time looting

The piece was part of the Gilbert Collection which is not bound by the same legal restrictions around deaccessioning as the London museum

A farewell exhibition, due to be visited by French President Emmanuel Macron this week, is being hosted at the French museum. But the West African nation is "not satisfied" with the partial restitution

The work was bought by Armand Dorville, a Jewish lawyer, but his heirs were forced to sell it at an auction in France

The Cavedone studies were among 750 drawings plundered from the Czech villa of Arthur Feldmann, a Jewish lawyer who died in the Holocaust

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