These Looted Benin Bronzes Are Home. What Now?
Western museums are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, but a state-of-the-art museum to display them is still a long way off.
Western museums are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, but a state-of-the-art museum to display them is still a long way off.
new video loaded: The Conflict Over Nigeria’s Returned Treasures Western museums are returning the Benin Bronzes — priceless items looted during colonialism — to Nigeria, but political infighting has jeopardized…
A London auction house says there is “no documented evidence” that an intricately carved grasshopper is from the boy king’s tomb. Its estimated price is up to $675,000.
When it began displaying a group of finely crafted treasures from the Kingdom of Benin in 2013, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, acknowledged that British soldiers had plundered thousands…
For the reason that documentary’s cameras forbidden rolling, plans for a fresh museum to show off the treasures have stalled, and the artifacts are as soon as once more off…
Mati Diop examines the destiny of 26 treasures — from time to time from their standpoint — looted from Benin in 1892.