‘Our gods were locked in the basement.’ Now Nepal is pursuing sacred items once smuggled abroad

Nepal’s gods and goddess are returning home. An unknown number of sacred statues of Hindu deities were stolen and smuggled ...
Hyperallergic

Met Museum Returns Two Sculptures to Nepal

"Vishnu Flanked by Lakshmi and Garuda" (11th century, Thakuri period), stone, 19 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches (all images courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City ...
The New York Times

Met Museum to Return Ancient Sculpture to Nepal

Three years after returning two stone sculptures, the museum has decided to give back another artwork to Nepal, this one thought to have been stolen from a temple in the Kathmandu Valley. By Zachary ...
Artnet

The Rubin Museum of Art Will Return Two Centuries-Old Artifacts to Nepal After an Activist Group Raised the Alarm on Twitter

The two artifacts will be returned to the Department of Archaeology in Nepal, which will in turn determine their final location. Nepal’s acting consul general, Bishnu Prasad Gautam [L], with Rubin ...
Dallas Observer

Statue at DMA Is Just One of Nepal’s Many Pillaged Works

Many statues that have been returned to Nepal have ended up in museums in Kathmandu, where they’re safe and accessible but cut off from their original spiritual functions, she said. A shrine in Nepal ...
Artnet

The Met Museum Will Restitute Two Ancient Sculptures That Were Stolen From Temples in Nepal

There’s more restitution news from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, which last week announced the return of a 13th-century wooden temple strut and Vishnu Flanked by Lakshmi and Garuda, an ...
Couriermail

Nepal palace reopens as museum

In a symbolic gesture to open the new museum, Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala hoisted the country's national flag above the sprawling palace as an army band played the new national anthem - which ...
Observer

Nepal’s Cultural Sites After the Earthquake: Rubin Museum Shares New Photos

On a special section of the museum’s website it has, as of this morning, posted photographs of Nepal’s hard-hit cultural sites before the earthquake along with recent images taken by the photographer ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Rubin Museum Agrees to Return Stolen Religious Artifacts to Nepal

This 14th-century religious carving of a water spirit was part of a window decoration in a Kathmandu monastery. Rubin Museum of Art The Rubin Museum of Art has pledged to return a pair of wooden ...