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Nigeria’s museum to oversee return of Benin bronzes
Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) will take charge of retrieving and preserving the Benin Bronzes, with the approval of the Oba of Benin, the rightful owner of the ...
Houston Chronicle12d
A promise to an African grandmother: Shining a light on Germany's colonial past
the foundation secured a long-term loan of 168 Benin Bronzes. Some are on display in Berlin’s Humboldt Forum museum, with ...
11 Magical London Museums That Will Transport You To Another Era
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The Art Newspaper26d
Tourist admission fees at UK national museums would be ‘ideologically at odds’ with their global collections, says new report
The British Museum, for instance, would be placed in the unenviable position of having to charge Nigerian tourists to see the Benin Bronzes, or Egyptians to view the Rosetta Stone. Meanwhile ...
Altoona Mirror10d
A promise to an African grandmother
the foundation secured a long-term loan of 168 Benin Bronzes. Some are on display in Berlin’s Humboldt Forum museum, with ...
Newsday12d
A promise to an African grandmother: Shining a light on Germany's colonial past
BERLIN — Mnyaka Sururu Mboro is still driven by the promise he gave his grandmother when he left Tanzania for Germany almost 50 years ago: to bring back for a proper burial the head of a local ...
WTOP News12d
A promise to an African grandmother: Shining a light on Germany’s colonial past
In 2022, it agreed to return hundreds of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, historic bronze sculptures. Teaching about Germany’s colonial era As part of the 2022 agreement, the foundation secured a long ...
Tasmanian ancestral remains to return home after being held in Scottish university collection since 1850s
Taken during colonial times, the skull from a young Tasmanian Aboriginal man was shipped to Europe. After spending more than ...
BellaNaija26d
Olugbile Holloway On The Return & Significance of 113 Benin Bronzes From the Netherlands
What does it mean to be ready? A sentence from the British Museum’s website explaining the Benin Bronzes reads, ‘Over 900 objects from the historic Kingdom of Benin are currently cared for by ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation11d
Tasmanian ancestral remains to return home after being held in Scottish university collection since 1850s
In 2021, it became the first institution to return a Benin Bronze, one of several thousand small metal statues looted by British soldiers ... to be part of normal museum practice.