Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Restitutions

Yessie Mosby bei der Gedenkfeier mit Angehörigen der australischen Ugaram Le © SPK/ Felix Zahn/photothek.de

In a formal handover ceremony, 22 Benin bronzes that were repatriated from Germany arrived in Nigeria, where they were presented to the public © Photothek / Florian Gaertner

The royal stool of Oba Esigie, made between 1735 and 1737, is packed for its journey to Nigeria © SPK/photothek/Thomas Koehler

Ceremony for the handover of the Toi moko from the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin to New Zealand © SPK / photothek.net / Florian Gärtner

Hermann Parzinger, president of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, and John Johnson, vice president of the Alaska Chugach Corporation, at the handover of the burial objects © SPK/photothek.net/Felix Zahn

Restitutions

Large sections of the material and immaterial collections sourced from all over the world that are currently kept in the holdings of the Ethnologisches Museum were amassed within the context of colonialism. In recent years, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz has restituted a number of objects from the Ethnologisches Museum to their respective countries of origin.