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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Museum of West African Art in Edo State, there is a vital need for the narrative of the restitution of the Benin bronzes to be told from the perspective of Africans, based on the realities on ...

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 ...

Sold to private collectors and museums in the Global North, the artifacts, known as the Benin Bronzes, included ceremonial ... €1.2 million from a fine-art foundation in Berlin called Ernst ...