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 ...

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 ...

Germany has over the past years made strides in coming to terms with a dark era of its past, the colonial rule of large swaths of Africa.

the foundation secured a long-term loan of 168 Benin Bronzes. Some are on display in Berlin’s Humboldt Forum museum, with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Taken during colonial times, the skull from a young Tasmanian Aboriginal man was shipped to Europe. After spending more than ...

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 ...

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.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, author Gregory Maguire plans one of his few “Elphie: A Wicked ...