This will be at the Edo Museum of West African Art - a grand initiative by the governor of Edo state to house all the returned Benin Bronzes. The authorities say it will not be completed for at ...

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

The Bronzes, thousands of metal sculptures and ivory carvings, were seized from the West African kingdom of Benin - in what is today Edo State in southern Nigeria - by a British military force in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Benin Bronzes are exhibited in museums around the world, but the largest collection can be found in the British Museum. While Germany announced the return of the bronzes in its possession, some ...

The Benin bronzes were taken when the city was looted ... At the moment, many museums still hold hundreds of pieces of Benin art. These artefacts are important to the people of modern-day Africa ...

Benin art features people ... This will keep my dad busy! My dad is a bronze caster. He makes all kinds of stuff. But the Oba wants him to make a very fancy mask in time for the parade.

The objects, known as the Benin Bronzes and including reliefs, statues and ivory artefacts, are now scattered around the world. Some are at the British Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of ...