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

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 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 ...

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 ...

Benin art features people, animals and gods ... We are in that little corner where Nigeria will be one day. You’ve made it! Welcome to the Benin civilisation. My name is Ibi.

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.

The information comes from a report into the Benin Bronzes by the Wereldmuseum which is due to be published in the coming week. Nigeria has been asking for the objects to be returned since ...