The royal leader of the Kingdom of Benin sought the return of artifacts displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The ...

The wealthy donor who pledged them to the museum asked they be returned to him amid talks to transfer ownership to their ...

WOKE calls to return British Museum’s Benin Bronzes to Nigeria should be rejected, Sir Trevor Philips says.  The former ...

Boston will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on 28 April, but most of the works it had been created to display will not be repatriated to their place of origin. Instead, all but five of the objects ...

The museum had sought to transfer ownership of 30 historic bronzes, originally plundered in a bloody colonial raid, to the ...

Claims for the artefacts' return 'vary greatly in legitimacy' due to 'highly disputed' historical and political arguments, a ...

The repatriation of African art is gaining momentum, but a number of highly important and symbolic pieces remain in the hands ...

The British Museum must not succumb to pressure to return the Benin Bronzes to Africa, as the case for their restitution is 'weak', Sir Trevor Phillips has said. The former head of the Racial ...

Calls to return the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria have been branded “weak” by Britain’s former anti-racism tsar. Sir Trevor ...