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The NYC cultural institution sent the objects to the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica as an "as an unrestricted gift"

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Costa Rica's ancient indigenous people made pots from clay and from stone. They carved figurines and tools. And for nearly a century, the Brooklyn Museum had many of these artifacts in its collection. Recently, it announced that it had repatriated more than 1,300 objects to the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica. NANCY ROSOFF: I view it as a win-win situation. GARCIA-NAVARRO: That's Nancy Rosoff, senior curator for the Arts of the Americas at the Brooklyn Museum. She initiated the reparation after she was hired in 2001. ROSOFF: As I was in storage surveying the collecti...

By Madeleine Muzdakis on July 12, 2021 The Minister of Culture and Youth, Sylvie Durán (right), examines some of the newly repatriated artifacts alongside Leidy Bonilla (in white) and Daniela Meneses, from the Heritage Protection Program. (Photo: Museo Nacional de Costa Rica) After a century away from their Central American home, 1,305 artifacts are returning to Costa Rica. The artifacts—including rare pottery and stone pieces—have long been held in The Brooklyn Museum, a New York institution which ga...

Costa Rica recovers archaeological pieces removed by US tycoon 3 minutes read San Jose, Jul 5 (EFE).- Costa Rica has recovered 1,305 very historically valuable archaeological pieces of ceramic and stone that were removed from the country by US railroad tycoon Minor Keith in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Costa Rican National Museum has completed the second repatriation – the first being in 2011 with the recovery of 981 pieces – from the Brooklyn Museum in New York, and the newly reacquired artifacts will allow it to complete the national collection. “It’s a way of recov...