For many in Nigeria, the Benin Bronzes are a potent reminder of the violence of colonialism. The NCMM has issued formal repatriation requests to museums across the world.

STORY: After a decades-long repatriation campaign, Nigeria has received 119 Benin Bronzes from the Netherlands.It is one of the largest restitutions of colonial-era artifacts since British forces ...

They claim that the bronzes - looted by British colonialists in the 19th Century from the kingdom of Benin in what is now Nigeria - are also part of the heritage of descendants of slaves in ...

Nigeria's national museum commission will be responsible for retrieving and keeping priceless Benin Bronzes, taking on the task with the assent of the royal ruler appointed sole owner and ...

STORY: These workers are carefully scraping rust and patina off thousands-of-years-old Nigerian Bronze artifacts.But unlike the better-known Benin Bronzes, these cultural treasures are not scattered ...

MFA Boston to return Benin Bronzes to wealthy donor, close gallery The unusual move follows years of negotiations between the museum, the collector and the Kingdom of Benin Torey Akers 25 April 2025 ...

Five Benin Bronzes that were donated by Lehman remain in the museum’s collection, including a pendant showing an oba and two dignitaries. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Robert Owen Lehman Collection.

Benin bronzes looted in the past and returned to Nigeria are examined during a handing over ceremony in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. AP Photo ...

The Netherlands says it will return more than 100 Benin Bronzes that British troops looted from Nigeria in the late 19th Century and which ended up in a Dutch museum. Thousands of these culturally ...