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Thailand welcomes home trafficked 1,000-year-old statues returned by New York’s Metropolitan Museum

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BANGKOK—Thailand’s National Museum hosted a welcome-home ceremony Tuesday for two ancient statues that were illegally trafficked from Thailand by a British collector of antiquities and were returned from the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Thai person looks at a standing Shiva sculpture from the 11th century during repatriation ceremony at National Museum in Bangkok, Thailand, on May 21, 2024.

This most recent repatriation of artwork comes as many museums in the US and Europe reckon with collections that contain objects looted from Asia, Africa and other places during centuries of colonialism or in times of upheaval.

 

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