Nigeria's national museum commission will be responsible for retrieving and keeping priceless Benin Bronzes, taking on the ...
Nigeria's National Museum Commission is tasked with retrieving and preserving the Benin Bronzes, ancient artifacts looted in 1897. Despite ownership by the Oba of Benin, the commission manages the ...
The return of the Benin Bronzes, looted by British colonial forces in 1897, has become a rallying cry for Nigeria’s cultural ...
The Netherlands says it will return more than 100 Benin Bronzes that British troops looted from Nigeria in the late 19th ...
In recent years, about 1,100 objects from German, Scottish, British, and French museums have been returned amid pressure over ...
Over 100 precious Benin Bronzes have been returned to Nigeria from a Dutch museum in a landmark repatriation agreement.
Nigeria will receive 113 Benin Bronzes, originally looted by the British, from the Netherlands. The plaques, personal ornaments and figures, currently housed in the collection of Wereldmuseum Leiden, ...
The artifacts were stolen by British soldiers in the late 19th century and eventually made their way to a Dutch collection.
The Netherlands has agreed to return a collection of 119 artifacts to Nigeria, the latest objects to be sent back to their homelands as museums grapple with their colonial-era holdings.
Netherlands has agreed to return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria following a formal request from the Nigerian government, ...
The Netherlands say over a 100 Benin Bronzes that were plundered from Nigeria by British troops in the 1800s in museums will ...
It is the latest example of a country announcing that it will repatriate a group of these objects, which were looted by the ...