Arts Council England has developed comprehensive guidance and frameworks for restitution and repatriation. The guidance provides a practical framework for museums to consider and manage potential restitution and repatriation cases Provenances of the collections – musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac.
The organization has implemented concrete measures by commissioning practical guidance documents and establishing standards defining restitution as the process by which cultural objects are returned to an individual or a community, and repatriation as the process by which cultural objects are returned to a nation or state at the request of a government Outgoing Leader of Paris’s Musée du Quai Branly: Report Urging Repatriation of African Objects Is ‘Self-Flagellation’.
However, significant limitations remain as UK museums accept ‘1970’ as an ethical watershed, refusing to acquire any object removed after that date from its country of origin without full documentation, any object acquired before 1970 is free from legal sanction or repatriation Restitution of 26 works to the Republic of Benin – musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac.
