Palace dignitaries of the Benin Royal Court carry the Benin Bronzes on July 15 during a restitution ceremony with the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art in Benin City, Nigeria. The Stanley ...

The oba wants the bronzes displayed in museums in Nigeria and around the world, a representative of the royal family said ... address colonial wrongs. In Benin City, there has been a huge ...

This incursion of 1,200 British soldiers captured and sacked Benin City (located in modern day Nigeria), stealing thousands ... five other Benin objects to the family that consigned them.

Beautifully cast by expert craftsmen from Benin City in what’s now southwest Nigeria, the Benin Bronzes have been languishing in museums all over the world for almost 125 years. Increasingly ...

A London museum has agreed to return 72 objects looted from Benin City in 1897 to the Nigerian ... in what is now the capital of Edo State in southern Nigeria, during a British military operation ...

Their final destination is expected to be the new Edo Museum of West African Art in Benin City, Nigeria, which is set to open in 2025. And here in Washington, Blankenberg is dreaming up an ...

The court, located in modern-day Nigeria, was sieged and ... route under Gundlach's belief that the Benin Bronzes belonged directly to the royal family. In 2021, Layiwola helped start dialogue ...