The Denver Art Museum purchased the plaque from the Carlebach Gallery in New York in 1955. Those rare “Benin Bronzes” over the past century were dispersed to hundreds of institutions around ...

Last year, Germany said it would return Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York returned two of its Benin Bronzes, albeit out of a collection of 160. To the donor?

Clad in protective blue surgical gloves, a Dutch museum worker gingerly unhooks a precious decorative artefact before gently ...

The British Museum and other UK institutions with Benin bronzes in their collections are ... during the expedition are held in city museums, art galleries, universities and in private collections ...

The story is well told in Barnaby Phillips’s Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes, published last year. A cockerel (18th century) (© The Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource ...

The art will be, in almost every sense ... to be “Nigeria” that makes the choice to sell or to display the Benin bronzes. It’s going to be one person and one family, who prevailed in ...

Increasingly, the art world is coming to the same conclusion. Last year, the museum returned a Benin Bronze from its collection, along with the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution ...

Nov. 7 (UPI) --A highly anticipated database of the Benin Bronzes, a massive trove of art and cultural artifacts looted from the Kingdom of Benin by the British empire in 1897, launched Friday.

In 2026, Nigeria plans to open the Edo Museum of West African Art in Benin City. The museum will house a majority of the ...

The Smithsonian Institution removed 10 Benin Bronze pieces from display at Washington’s National Museum of African Art and announced a new ethical return policy this year. Other U.S. museums ...

The Benin Bronzes is a catch-all term for the 10,000 items of art stolen from the Oba’s ancestor, including this 1550 horn player held by the Met. But campaign groups say the Oba’s family ...