One can also visit the Father Sebastian Englert Anthropological Museum, Easter Island’s sole museum, for a close-up viewing of moai and several other cultural artifacts.

A huge "Moai" statue, one of the iconic stone monuments from Easter Island, began its journey back home on Monday following a years-long campaign to get it returned to its original setting since ...

World Chile museum to return Easter Island ‘head’ Chile’s National Museum of Natural History said it will return to Easter Island an enormous stone statue taken from the Rapa Nui people.

The British Museum is facing renewed calls to return a huge moai statue to Easter Island, sparked by a social media campaign by Chilean activists. Easter Island, known as Rapa Nui in the local ...

A delegation from the British Museum has traveled to Easter Island to discuss calls for the return of its famous artifacts – including the towering Hoa Hakananai’a statue.

In 1868 a giant Easter Island statue was dug up by the crew of a Royal Navy frigate and transported to England, where it was presented to Queen Victoria as a gift.

The statue was removed from the island in 1868 by a Royal Navy captain, Richard Powell, and presented as a gift to Queen Victoria. She donated it to the national museum in London in 1869.

According to the History Channel website, archaeological excavations of Easter Island "reveal three distinct cultural phases: the early period (700-850 A.D.), the middle period (1050-1680) and the ...

Easter Island’s Ancient Population Never Faced Ecological Collapse, Suggests Another Study ... a curator at the MAPSE Rapa Nui Museum in Hanga Roa, the island’s main town, tells Science.

In June 2019 two museum representatives, an anthropologist and the curator of the Oceania section of the museum, visited Easter Island. The museum has also appointed a curator charged with ...

Easter Island, over 2,000 miles (3,219 km) from the coast of Chile, ... The statue will be housed in the Padre Sebastián Englert Anthropological Museum on the tourist island.