Museums worldwide are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Here's why it matters, who's receiving them, and what it means ...

Nigeria to open MOWAA in Benin City in Nov. 2025, showcasing West African art and repatriated Benin Bronzes in a world-class ...

As more looted art comes back to Africa, countries have wrestled with the right way to display it. That 200,000 people have lined up for a show suggests Benin has found an answer. By Elian Peltier ...

The art of the Benin kingdom, Farmer-Paellmann contends, represents the proceeds of a crime against humanity. The oba should not profit from the part his ancestors played in the crime.

The world’s most famous collection of African art arrived in Britain after a spectacular act of colonial violence. In February 1897, an expeditionary force of 1,200 British soldiers and African ...

The Museum of West African Art, based in Benin City, Nigeria, announced Thursday that it will officially open its campus to ...

Edo artist, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, Plaque, Mid-16th to 17th century, Copper alloy. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art will display nine works from the royal court of Benin in a ...

From the viewpoint of the institution we are developing in Nigeria, the Museum of West African Art in Edo State, there is a vital need for the narrative of the restitution of the Benin bronzes to ...

Curator Azu Nwagbogu is also the founder of the African Artists’ Foundation. Courtesy Azu Nwagbogu. Born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, Nwagbogu is the founder and director of the African Artists ...

In addition to the National Museum of African Art’s collection, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has a collection of 20 Benin bronzes. Provenance research for that collection has ...

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 ...