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Like museums all over the world, the Met has been buffeted in recent years by growing calls to restitute works that law enforcement officials and foreign governments have said it has no right to.

From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2024

He would like to see "more freedom for museums, but then a kind of backstop, a committee where we would have to appeal if we wanted to restitute items".

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2024

The decision to restitute them follows several years of contacts between Berlin’s museum authority and Colombia, and an official Colombian request last year for their return.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 16, 2023

Macron said the 26 pieces will be given back at the end of October, “because to restitute these works to Africa is to give African young people access to their culture.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2021

But as soon as we handle this thought as a psychotherapeutic remedy, destined to restitute the disturbed psychological equilibrium, it becomes evident that the very uniformity of it makes it a clumsy, inadjustable pattern.

From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg

In 2024, the Manhyia Palace Museum received 67 restituted or loaned cultural objects from institutions including the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2025

"I am sure all these objects eventually are going to be restituted because the ethical code of museums is changing, it's just a matter of when," said Hanna.

From Reuters ● Oct. 5, 2022

“The Germans have been very open about their collections, created databases to make their collections’ information and archives accessible, conducted provenance research in public museums, and restituted many works of art,” Romano said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2022

Kirchner’s record is another restituted work, “Berlin Street Scene” from 1913-14, that sold at Christie’s for $38.1 million, over its $24 million high estimate, in 2006.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2018

"Upon your advancing to him, as I hinted before, an immediate particular sum from what must, by and bye, be legally restituted."

From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

The agency said it had "detected fraudulent diversion of public money by various Reliance Anil Ambani group companies" and that it was "committed to restituting" the proceeds of these crimes to "their rightful claimants".

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2025

The majority of descendants live in the United States and Israel, but the museum has already or is in the process of also restituting silver pieces to France, Great Britain, Australia and Mexico.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2023

The museum has “a long and well documented history of responding to claims regarding works of art, restituting objects where appropriate, being transparent about the provenance of works in the collection,” the statement said.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2021

“Restituting the Iraqi artifacts for me means restituting our self-esteem and confidence in Iraqi society,” he said, speaking through a translator.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 23, 2021

In an earlier claim, the United Kingdom’s Spoliation Advisory Panel ruled against restituting eight drawings to the heirs in 2009.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2021