This paper explores the debate between claimant (source) nations and western museums over the ownership of antiquities taken out before the enactment of twentieth century national and international laws. Source nations are requesting the return of cultural material which they be…
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Shortly before his death in 2001, W.G. Sebald made what amounts to a mission statement for his literary endeavors under the title "Ein Versuch der Restitution. (An Attempt at Restitution). In this brief address, Sebald maintains that his work can be seen as an attempt to make am…
The impact of the Third Reich’s large-scale art thefts across Europe during World War II are still being thoroughly examined in the modern day. France, in particular, was left with some 60,000 works that were destined to be repatriated to museums, Jewish families, Jewish art col…
For the last two centuries, much of the ancient Parthenon marble sculptures have been housed in the British Museum. For the past century, the museum has also displayed bronzes from Africa’s western coastal Benin region. These cultural objects have been part of repatriation debat…
South Africa’s history is characterised by injustice, from the dispossession of land belonging to the indigenous inhabitants during the colonial era, to the discriminatory laws under the apartheid government. Nowhere is this injustice more glaring than in the marginalisation of …