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Building of the Wereldmuseum Amsterdam, 21 April 2024
Politics
Netherlands to return 288 museum pieces to Indonesia
20 September 2024 - 11:10
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The cannon that belonged to King of Kandy in Sri Lanka and seized by the soldiers of the Dutch East India Company in 1765.
Politics
Netherlands to return colonial looted art to Sri Lanka
28 August 2023 - 07:28
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Bundled up bikers entering the Rijksmuseum tunnel under their billboard celebrating the winter season, Amsterdam 7 February 2018
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Dutch museums, universities to investigate return of colonial collections: report
7 December 2020 - 08:03
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Thirteenth-century stone statue of Ganesha sitting on a ring of skulls taken from East Java to the Netherlands in the 19th century. 18 June 2015
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Netherlands advised to return art looted during colonial era
7 October 2020 - 16:50
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Bundled up bikers entering the Rijksmuseum tunnel under their billboard celebrating the winter season, Amsterdam 7 February 2018
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Rijksmuseum in talks with Sri Lanka, Indonesia about returning stolen art
12 March 2019 - 10:50
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The Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam
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Dutch museum for ethnology to give back art stolen from other cultures
7 March 2019 - 08:53

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