Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

International repatriations  

To date, Te Papa has repatriated ancestral remains and Toi Moko from 14 countries bringing back to New Zealand over 200 ancestors. Below is a list of international repatriations carried out  by the National Museum and includes those carried out prior to the establishment of the dedicated Karanga Aotearoa Repatriation Programme:

       
1990 Museum of Ethnology Stockholm Sweden
Museum of Victoria Melbourne Australia
National Museum Ireland Dublin Ireland
       
1991 Ulster Museum Belfast Ireland
   
1992 Musée d’Ethograph Geneva Switzerland
  Museum for Volkerkunde Basel Switzerland
       
1994 Manchester Museum Manchester England
  New Zealand High Commission London England
       
1996 Royal Albert Memorial Art Gallery & Museum Exeter England
  Lichfield Museum, Staffordshire Staffordshire England
       
1998 National Museum of Denmark Copenhagen Denmark
  Queensland Museum Brisbane  Australia
  Whitby Museum Leeds England
Scarborough Museum North Yorkshire England
       
1999 University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Scotland
  National Museums of Scotland Edinburgh Scotland
       
2000 South Australian Museum Adelaide Australia
       
2001 Australian Museum Sydney Australia
       
2004 Museo Ethnográfico Buenos Aires Argentina
  Bishop Museum, Hawai’i & National Burials Programme Hawai'i United States of America
       
2005 University of Melbourne Melbourne Australia
  Museum Victoria Melbourne Australia
  State Coroner’s Office Melbourne Australia
  Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde Leiden Netherlands
  Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Glasgow Scotland
  Suffolk Regiment Museum Suffolk England
  Perth Art Gallery and Museum Perth Scotland
  Saffron Walden Museum Essex England
  Leeds Museum Exeter England
  Royal Albert Memorial Art Gallery & Museum Exeter England
       
2006 Uberseemuseum Bremen Germany
       
2007 Marischal Museum Aberdeen Scotland
  Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Tasmania Australia
  National Museums Australia Canberra Australia
  Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO Canberra Australia
  Institute of Anatomy Canberra Australia
  Field Museum Chicago United States of America
  National Museums Liverpool Liverpool England
  Swansea Museum Swansea Wales
  Hancock Museum Newcastle England
  Plymouth Museum Plymouth England
  Bexhill Museum Sussex  England
  University College Sussex  England
  Royal College of Surgeons London England
  BARTS and the London, Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry London England
  Bristol Museum Bristol England
       
2008 Royal Ontario Museum Toronto Canada
  Canadian Museum of Civilisation Ottawa Canada
  University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada
  Oxford Museum of Natural History Oxford England
  British Museum (partial approval for köiwi tangata only) London England
  Manchester Museum Manchester England
  Cuming Museum London England
  National Museums of Scotland Department of Zoology and Geology Glasgow Scotland
       
2009 Macleay Museum University of Sydney Sydney Australia
  Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales Cardiff Wales
  Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow Glasgow Scotland
  The Museum of World Culture / Vårldskultur Museet Gothenburg Sweden
  Gothenburg Museum of Natural History Gothenburg Sweden
  Trinity College Dublin Republic of Ireland
       
2011 Lund University Lund Sweden
Frankfurt Museum of World Cultures Frankfurt Germany
Senckenburg Museum of World Cultures Frankfurt Germany
Oslo University, Department of Anatomy Oslo Norway
Oslo University Museum of Cultural History Oslo Norway
Rouen Museum of Natural History Rouen France
   
2012 Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle Paris France
Musée National de la Marine Paris France
Musée du Quai Branly Paris France
Museum de Nantes Nantes France
Museum de Lille Lille France
Musée des Beaux-Arts Dunkurque Franc e
Musée des Confluences Lyon France
Musée des Sens Sens France
Musée d’Arts Africains, Océaniens, Amérindiens de Marseille Marseille France
Université de Montpellier Montpellier France



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