The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/repatriation)
After two decades, the Grand Egyptian Museum will open this summer near the Giza’s pyramids. The museum will span over 120 acres and showcase over 100,000 artifacts, including Tutankhamun’s treasures.
A bronze head of the Roman emperor Septimus Severus, illegally trafficked from a shrine where he had been worshiped as a deity in antiquity, will be repatriated from Denmark to Turkey.
A cloak of thousands of scarlet ibis feathers, sacred to the Indigenous Tupinambá people of Brazil, has been in Danish hands since the 1600s. Now it has finally been returned to Brazil in the midst of an ongoing dispute over Indigenous rights in the country.
New regulations have led museums to take Indigenous artifacts and human remains off display until they can receive consent from the descendants of the people those items were taken from.
The Dutch Supreme Court has ruled that objects borrowed 9 years ago by a museum in Amsterdam from museums in the now Russian-annexed region of Crimea belong to Ukraine and not Russia.
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