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The royal leader of the Kingdom of Benin sought the return of artifacts displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The ...
While most of the artifacts were meticulously preserved, they have been away from their home land for over 100 years. Meanwhile, the British Museum still has nearly 1,000 Nigerian artifacts and ...
WOKE calls to return British Museum’s Benin Bronzes to Nigeria should be rejected, Sir Trevor Philips says. The former equalities czar said the case for sending back 900 brass sculptures was ...
In an unprecedented move for a United States arts institution, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will return a promised gift ...
Although artifacts of questionable provenance may legally belong to a museum ... removed by the British during an 1897 raid of Benin City in what is now the nation of Nigeria.
These birds, more than mere artifacts ... more than 119 Benin bronze statues looted from Nigeria's Benin City by British troops in the 19th century. Germany returned 20 of them in 2022, but the ...