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Selected documents from ILA with the National Archives accreditation logo.

The building of the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands.

Map of sites designated world heritage or of cultural interest by UNESCO

A 3D printed tactile replica of the Tsar Cannon. The original is on display outside the Kremlin in Moscow.

The Parliament of Canada from Parliament Hill, Ottawa with the Peace Tower at its centre.

"Spirit of Justice" statue at the Rayburn Building, Independence Ave., SE, Washington, D.C

On 5 September 2023, the Manchester Museum formally returned 172 artefacts to the Anindilyakwa community.

A view of the United Kingdom Houses of Parliament. The Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben is on the right hand side of the picture.

Front entrance to the Horniman Museum. In 2022, the museum agreed to formally return its Benin bronzes back to Nigeria.

Benin Bronzes as displayed in the British Museum.

The Tupinamba Manteau from the ethnographic collection of the Nationalmuseet, the National Museum of Denmark, due for repatriation to the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The British Museum in March of 2024

An antique style globe with the continent of Africa facing front. Date unknown.

Cover image of A Repatriation Handbook published by National Museum Australia.

Gold pipe in possession of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In May 2024 the artefact was returned on loan along with a number of other pieces to the Manhyia Palace, Kumasi, Ghana as part of an agreement to return objects taken 150 years earlier.

World map with grid lines and placement dots representing digital communication.

Cap made of leather, kidney shape, leather blackened on the outside and ornamented with embossed wreaths, silver, gold, silver wire and gold wire. Part of the British Museum collection (museum no: Af1891,0114.1). On display at the Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, Ghana.

Gweagal spear on display at Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge.

Largely based upon the earlier D’Anville map, this map has been enlarged and expanded by Samuel Boulton. Depicts the continent in full with insets of the Gold Coast (or Ivory Coast, or Guinea). This map is unique in that it is a serious attempt to compile all of the accurate scientific knowledge of the African continent available at the time.

Brass plaque commonly known as "bronze". Benin kingdom (Nigeria). British Museum (London)

All the fifteen standing Moai of Ahu Tongariki, Easter island

The Pantheon is a former Roman temple and, since AD 609, a Catholic church (Basilica Santa Maria ad Martyres or Basilica of St. Mary and the Martyrs) in Rome, Italy.

Part of a series of artworks owned by the Block-Bauer family, looted by the Nazis in 1941. This portrait was the subject of a seven year legal battle to return it to the Block-Bauer family from the Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria. It was finally returned in 2006. The portrait is now on display in the Neue Galerie in New York.

Sketches by Lt. Colin Dundas, when moai Hoa Hakananai'a was on board HMS Topaze in 1868

Sir Hans Sloane's collection contributed to the foundation of the British Museum .

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, located on the Acton Peninsula, Canberra ACT Australia.