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Dutch museums to list colonial era looted art

In the coming months Dutch museums may have to review their vast art collections. The government has ordered them to locate any pictures from the country's colonial past that originated overseas and return them to their countries of origin, as Jos van Beurden, an independent researcher specialising in restitution, explains.

(Picture: Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, in 2020. Credit: Reuters)

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