restitute
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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
The Español Government will make de Angleese restitute.
From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Gordon Stables
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
Crucially, that approach allows for items to be restituted even if the country of origin does not yet have the facilities to store and exhibit them.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 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
From tenderness to a party then imagined to be subdued, it was struck out by command, nor do I find it restituted in Kennett's Collection of English Histories.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
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 Met said in a statement that it was following its “long and well-documented history of responding to claims regarding works of art, restituting objects where appropriate.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 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
Some cases have made their way through the courts, but Poland has never passed a comprehensive law that would regulate restituting or compensating seized properties.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2021
