AGENCIES | In the largest restitution of its kind, the Netherlands recently returned 119 Benin Bronzes to the Nigerian ...

The Haffenreffer Museum has established a partnership with the Digital Benin Initiative, an international project aiming to catalogue the dispersed royal artworks looted from Benin. The collaboration ...

The Benin bronzes had entered the museum’s collection through purchase, transfer, donation and bequest over the years. A legal agreement transferred ownership from the Smithsonian to representatives ...

The historical museum of Abomey, Benin, on the site also planned to host Benin’s new museum. YANICK FOLLY/AFP/Getty Images. The histories of colonialism and art are hopelessly intertwined; it ...

Last month, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C., removed 10 Benin Bronze pieces from display and committed to repatriating them to Nigeria.

Nigerian rapper and activist Emmanuel Great Okugun, known as Gee Baller and Yaya Bande, staged a powerful protest at the ...

A London museum has agreed to return 72 objects looted from Benin City in 1897 to the Nigerian government.. The Horniman Museum and Gardens, located in south London, announced the transfer in a ...

British troops in 1897 mounted a violent, retaliatory raid on the Kingdom of Benin, in what’s now southern Nigeria, looting and burning the royal palace and sending the oba, or king, into exile. The ...

LONDON (AP) — A London museum agreed Sunday to return a collection of Benin Bronzes looted in the late 19th century from what is now Nigeria as cultural institutions throughout Britain come ...

Artifacts from Benin are tied to a violent history — in 1897, British colonial forces ravaged the Royal Palace in Benin City, plundering thousands of artworks in the massacre. The Haffenreffer Museum ...