While today's Benin Bronze casters appreciate repatriation efforts, they say Nigeria's government is not investing enough in them. They fear if this continues, there won't be any more Benin Bronze ...

The US Supreme Court has denied a petition to block the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. from restituting 29 Benin ...

The German government returned some of the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria– 125 years after they were stolen by the British troops in 1897. Cultural historian, art and heritage specialist Dr. Oluwatoyin ...

Nigeria has been working for years to repatriate the so-called Benin Bronzes, a group of thousands of objects the United Kingdom looted in 1897 from the Kingdom of Benin, now part of Nigeria.

And in that long and turbulent history, the Benin Bronzes, as they used to be known, hold a unique place. Made in what is now modern Nigeria, in the sixteenth century, the Benin plaques are ...

An exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly ...

which saw thousands of sculptures and cultural artefacts stolen during the destruction of Benin City (in present-day Nigeria). Many items ended up in museums or in private collections mainly found ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. University of Cambridge, Britain. [Courtesy] A Cambridge University college will on ...

Addis Ababa officials to demand return of royal and religious artefacts following Benin Bronzes deal with Nigeria ...