Archaeological excavation in Benin City, Nigeria, ahead of the construction of the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) has ...

The carved ivory tusks from the Benin kingdom constitute a distinctive genre within the Benin corpus. Blackmun has been studying the motifs carved in relief on the ivories and has assembled and ...

The wealthy donor who pledged them to the museum asked they be returned to him amid talks to transfer ownership to their African land of origin There is not much time left to view the masterful and ...

The Museum of Fine Arts will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on April 28, the museum announced Tuesday. The gallery opened in 2013 after the MFA accepted works lent from the collection of Robert Owen ...

For more than a decade, a collection of masterful works from the West African Kingdom of Benin have held pride of place at the Museum of Fine Arts, in a dedicated gallery just off the museum’s central ...

THE SACKING of Benin City by a heavily armed expeditionary force in February 1897 was said to be an act of revenge in a bitter trade dispute between Britain and the Kingdom of Benin, east of Lagos.

The Museum of Fine Arts Boston has returned two works of art to the Kingdom of Benin after 12 years in its collection. The transfer was coordinated and facilitated by Dr. Arese Carrington, a member of ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In the past few years, Europe and the United States have been returning stolen bronzes from the historical Kingdom of Benin. While today's Benin Bronze casters ...