Switzerland: Commission for Historically Contaminated Cultural Heritage

Switzerland’s Federal Council will set up a new independent committee to advise on disputes over art that was looted during the Nazi era. The committee will also be consulted over repatriation claims made about cultural objects that came to Switzerland due to colonialism.

The committee will be formed of nine to 12 experts and becomes active in 2024.

It will offer recommendations that are not binding and follows, in this way, in the footsteps of similar initiatives in Germany (2003) and Austria (1998).