Nigeria's national museum commission will be responsible for retrieving and keeping priceless Benin Bronzes, taking on the ...
The Netherlands says it will return more than 100 Benin Bronzes that British troops looted from Nigeria in the late 19th ...
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 return ...
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 ...
It is the latest example of a country announcing that it will repatriate a group of these objects, which were looted by the ...
The Netherlands will return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria which the country took during colonial times.
It’s been described as the single largest return to date of the famous Benin antiquities looted by the British military.
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, ...
In 2022, Germany returned 1,030 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. The same year, three US museums - the Smithsonian Institution's ...
The Netherlands say over a 100 Benin Bronzes that were plundered from Nigeria by British troops in the 1800s in museums will ...
The Netherlands has agreed to return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, according to a statement released by the embassy on ...