“We were very sad to see that our gods were locked in the basement. We were then determined that we need to take back the ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A day before the exhibition opening, activists demonstrated with signs bearing messages such as “Say No to Cultural Invasion,” “Rubin Stop Your Whitewashing,” and “Rubin We Want Our Gods Back.” (photo ...

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 ...

The original 12th-century Laxmi-Narayan stolen in 1984. Photo: LAIN SINGH BANGDEL In Sotheby’s catalogue in 1990. Photo: ERIN L. THOMPSON The deity in the Dallas Art Museum in 2014. Photo: ERIN L.

Ram Prasad Kadel, the founder and curator of the museum, has been collecting the musical instruments since 1995 together with his wife Nanda Sharma. His passion has taken him to all 77 districts of ...