First Nations artefacts housed at the Museum of Vancouver in Canada will return to Australia following an agreement struck by the Queensland Museum.

Queensland Arts Minister Leeanne Enoch met with the Museum of Vancouver last year to push for the return of Queensland artefacts during a $126,000 ministerial study tour to Canada and the United States.

The state government says an arrangement with the museum was recently struck, and work will now begin on the repatriation of artefacts and secret sacred material.

The artefacts will initially be transferred from Canada to the Queensland Museum, before they are returned to the communities they came from.

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