The second meeting of the G20 Culture Working Group Meeting, which begins in Bhubaneswar on Sunday, will focus on achieving sustainability through crafts and heritage. In keeping with that theme, an exhibition — ‘Sustain: The Craft Idiom’ — will be inaugurated by Union Culture Minister G Kishan Reddy and Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik on Monday at Odisha Crafts Museum.

This report, entitled Shared heritage: universality, restitution and circulation of works of art, proposes a doctrine and method for reviewing and processing restitution requests. It is part of the dynamic launched by the President of the Republic during his speech in Ouagadougou in 2017 calling for the possibility of restoring African cultural property and strengthening cultural partnerships between France and Africa. Since 2017, France has made its heritage and museum cooperation with the countries of the African continent one of its priorities, in close coordination between the embassies and the services and operators of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture.

The Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works, announces that on the 26th of April 2023, the repatriation of over 80 Cypriot antiquities from the United States of America was successfully completed. The antiquities date to various periods of Cypriot history, from around 2000 BC up to the 18th century AD. These include, amongst others, ancient clay and glass vessels, limestone sculptures, coins and an ecclesiastical wall painting fragment.

En la mañana de este viernes, el ministro de la Secretaría Nacional de Cultura (SNC), Rubén Capdevila, se reunió con Germán García, director de la Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos (OEI) en Paraguay y con Fernando Moreno, coordinador de proyectos de la Facultad Politécnica de la Universidad Nacional de Asunción (UNA), quien estuvo acompañado Hilda Velázquez y Soledad Ayala, con quienes conversó sobre el XIV Congreso de Archivología del Mercosur, que se realizará en nuestro país en noviembre próximo.

El Ministerio de Cultura celebra la declaratoria de Bien Cultural de las siete danzas propias del departamento de Morazán, realizada por la Asamblea Legislativa este 18 de abril.

Con sede en el Museo Fuerte de Guadalupe, esta mañana se inauguró el III Foro Internacional de Innovación, Reestructuración y Conservación del Patrimonio, en el marco de la conmemoración del Día Internacional de los Monumentos y Sitios. La actividad académica convoca a expertos de México, Colombia y Francia, para dialogar en torno a las experiencias en la atención del patrimonio cultural.