Cultural Artefacts

This museum curator explains why we should bring our childhood toys, old band T-shirts and family heirlooms out of hiding and honour them for the memories they contain.

The objects were given as gifts to Lutheran missionaries but are now back in Australia, as part of efforts to return First Nations items.

The tooth could provide further historical evidence of inter-community trading in Western Australia and was unearthed in Juukan Gorge, which made headlines in 2020 when its rock shelters were damaged by Rio Tinto blasts.

In the 1920s, two mysterious objects were found in a North Queensland cane field. Now nearly 100 years later, they've been returned to their rightful owners.

A lawyer for Yugunga-Nya traditional owners believes loopholes in WA's legislation will allow Sandfire Resources to escape prosecution for disturbing sites near Meekatharra.

More than 15,000 artefacts have been found in test pit excavations of the site near the 1818 massacre of six Aboriginal people camped by the Minnamurra River.

Indigenous leaders on a remote island in the Gulf of Carpentaria are celebrating the return of almost 200 artefacts from the Manchester Museum.

Groote Eylandt's Indigenous communities celebrate the return of 174 artefacts from the Manchester Museum, saying the move has encouraged them to start making and using them again.

The British Museum launches a public hotline asking for help to locate some 2,000 missing artefacts, revealing they were mostly ancient Greek and Roman gems and jewellery.

Community members travelled across the world to attend an emotional handover ceremony.

The National Gallery of Australia has handed 3 rare bronze statues back to Cambodia, after an investigation found compelling evidence they'd been looted.

The sari is worn by women all over the world, but it’s much more than just a piece of clothing. India Now looks at the role the sari plays in telling women’s stories.

Geelong Gallery are holding an exhibition showcasing Clarice Beckett's work. Coinciding with the 100 year anniversary of her first exhibition,
the show promises visitors a new interaction with her landscapes .

Amid the devastation of the NT's flood zone, quick action by art centre staff saves Aboriginal artefacts that had just been repatriated to their community.

The Australian Border Force intercepted the painting and small bowl when they arrived in Australian last year.

Switzerland hands a large stone-carved head back to Peru, where it was sculpted around 2,500 years ago by one of the country's earliest civilisations, the culture office said.

An ivory spoon dating back 2,700 years that was recently repatriated to the Palestinian Authority from the United States sparks a dispute with Israel's new far-right government over cultural heritage in the occupied West Bank.

Thousands of Egyptians are calling on the British Museum to return the Rosetta Stone, which enabled 19th-century scholars to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.

The discovery of likely WWII mortar shells beneath a Sydney home may have brought out the bomb squad, but the unearthing of a 1920s physical culture program is shedding light on the sport's Australian evolution.

Northern Territory traditional owners travel to a small Kimberley town to recover a piece of Aboriginal heritage after it spent 59 years unaccounted for.