Nigeria's Museum Agrees With Royal Ruler on Custody of Benin Bronzes (This Feb. 26 story has been corrected to make clear that the royal museum will house some of, not all, the artefacts ...
On the other hand, the British Museum holds over 900 Benin Bronzes but has outright refused to repatriate them, instead offering only “long-term loans” to Nigeria. This stance has been ...
This includes a number of the Benin Bronzes, with the Metropolitan Museum agreeing to return two of their prized collections to Nigeria. Another London museum, the Horniman Museum and Gardens ...
The Netherlands says it will return over 100 Benin Bronzes that British troops looted from Nigeria in the late 19th Century ...
This restitution contributes to redressing a historical injustice that is still being felt today,” a Dutch minister said.
Benin Bronzes are exhibited in museums around the world, but the largest collection can be found in the British Museum. While Germany announced the return of the bronzes in its possession, some ...
Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology came to hold 116 bronzes, which it pledged to return at the same time Oxford’s Pitt Rivers and Ashmolean museums promised to hand over their 97.
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LAGOS, Feb 26 (Reuters) - (This Feb. 26 story has been corrected to make clear that the royal museum will house some of, not all, the artefacts, in paragraph 6) Nigeria's national museum ...
LAGOS - 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 ...
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