Maria Silina
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Maria Silina
@mariasln.bsky.social
Currently, I am involved in a collaborative project on restitution requests and irregular displacements and alienations of museum collections in the USSR. Montreal, 🇨🇦. They/them 🏳️‍⚧️
Mariia Silina (Bochum and Montreal) on “Museum collections in the USSR: knowledge production and provenance research” December 16th at 7 PM CET. Please register to attend lnkd.in/eYcs9b-Q lnkd.in/et-KeNsv
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November 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I am curious to watch it later: BRICS International Seminar on the Return of Cultural Heritage www.youtube.com/@caeniusp281...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
A brief look (in German) at some of the main tasks and ongoing challenges in the field: Plünderung und kulturelle Zerstörung in der Ukraine: Dokumentation des Krieges gegen das kulturelle Erbe h-und-g.info/forum/schwer...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
We argue that these large-scale cataloguing initiatives are resource-intensive and often unviable given the constraints African governments face. We advocate for a strategic reallocation of limited government resources toward community-led restitution projects openrestitution.africa/resources/re...
Rethinking Inventories for African-led Restitution | Open Restitution
This report responds to an emerging challenge in the restitution landscape: African governments and decision-makers are increasingly considering comprehensive national inventory programs that attempt
openrestitution.africa
October 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Recherches sur la circulation des objets muséaux en Europe de l’Est au XXᵉ siècle : dynamiques, défis et perspectives
3 décembre 2025
11:30am - 12:30pm ET
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October 2, 2025 at 4:52 AM
En 2006, le musée russe de l’Ermitage refuse aux équipes du musée Guimet l’accès à des pièces archéologiques lui appartenant, déposées (« prêtées ») depuis les années 1930. La Russie estime qu’il s’agit de dons incessibles et inaliénables. culture.gouv.fr/nous-connait...
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October 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Selon la Commission consultative des trésors nationaux, il aurait été « cédé à l'occasion des ventes par les autorités soviétiques dans les années 1930, ce qui semble avoir permis son retour en mains privées en France ». t.co/PJWCeoWW8N
https://actualitte.com/article/125852/livres-anciens/considere-comme-perdu-un-rarissime-manuscrit-refait-surface
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October 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Why did UNESCO not create a framework for international assistance in the restitution of property looted and displaced during WWII?
August 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Hi! I'm looking for someone with experience working in auction house archives. I'm particularly interested in Parke-Bernet Galleries (later acquired by Sotheby’s), but any general advice or pointers would be greatly appreciated!
May 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Reposted by Maria Silina
‘I was speculating: if China really wanted something back, how would that conversation go?’ Joel Tan explains why he wrote a play about the British Museum returning a fictional statue in ‘Scenes from a Repatriation’ buff.ly/DggGOYf
Restitution drama: an interview with Joel Tan | Apollo Magazine
The Singaporean playwright talks to Arjun Sajip about dramatising the return of a fictional Buddhist statue from the British Museum to China
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May 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Coming soon in Fribourg: Silina Mariia (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Université du Québec à Montréal) : « Restitution en Russie: Entre pratiques et discours publics » events.unifr.ch/restitutions...
Programme par jour | Spoliations, restitutions et circulations des objets | University of Fribourg
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May 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Please join us in June -- CONF: Histories of Museum Assets and Ownership in the Eastern Bloc.

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Histories of Museum Assets and Ownership in the Eastern Bloc
Explore how Communist-era regimes in Eastern Europe and Central Asia reshaped cultural heritage through nationalization, confiscation, and restitution of museum collections. Cases span Poland to Uzbek...
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May 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM