restitute
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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
During World War II, several museum officials joined the effort to save, catalog and restitute art looted by the Nazis.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2020
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
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
It must not be forgotten that the decomposition of the brain molecules can never be restituted by anything but rest, and ultimately by sleep.
From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg
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
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
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