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 ...

The return of the Benin Bronzes, looted by British colonial forces in 1897, has become a rallying cry for Nigeria’s cultural restitution movement. Despite promises from Western institutions to ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In the past few years, Europe and the United States have been returning stolen bronzes from the historical Kingdom of Benin. While today's Benin Bronze casters ...

The Benin Bronzes are a collection of thousands of metal plaques and sculptures that decorated the royal palace of the ...

The German government returned some of the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria– 125 years after they were stolen by the British troops in 1897. Cultural historian, art and heritage specialist Dr. Oluwatoyin ...

They carved masks for ceremonies and they moulded sculptures of gods out of mud. In Benin City, craft workers were organised into groups known as guilds. There were guilds for wood carvers, ivory ...

Légende image, Certains des objets ont été exposés dans un musée de Berlin avant d'être renvoyés au Nigeria. 20 décembre 2022 La ministre allemande des Affaires étrangères, Annalena ...

Hello future people of the UK! I’d like to show you around The Benin Civilisation but to do that you’ve got to go back 500 years. Before Queen Victoria, before the Spanish Armada right back to ...

January 21: Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs announced she was seeking $7 million to aid Arizona State Museum’s repatriation of Native American human remains and artifacts. “The hardworking staff ...

March 28, 2021 Benin Bronzes on display at the British Museum in London. Photo: Joyofmuseums via Wikimedia Commons Benin Bronzes on display at the British Museum in London. Photo: Joyofmuseums via ...

It is the latest example of a country announcing that it will repatriate a group of these objects, which were looted by the British as part of a punitive expedition in 1897 ...