The British Museum, which has some 950 Benin Bronzes, has come under particular criticism for its refusal to give them back, but is only one of many museums struggling to justify the legitimacy of ...

Benin Bronzes are exhibited in museums around the world, but the largest collection can be found in the British Museum. While Germany announced the return of the bronzes in its possession, some ...

It would have been a highly symbolic moment. Cambridge has the second biggest collection of Benin Bronzes in Britain after the British Museum itself, which is increasingly isolated on the issue of ...

A large quantity of the objects were looted during an 1897 British military expedition ... Despite their name, the majority of the Benin Bronzes were actually made of brass, while others were ...

British troops defeated the king, destroyed the capital and confiscated thousands of bronze artefacts from the palace. Consequently, these artefacts were sold in European markets as Benin Bronzes. In ...

The top culprit: The British Museum Perhaps no single ... This includes a number of the Benin Bronzes, with the Metropolitan Museum agreeing to return two of their prized collections to Nigeria.

March 28, 2021 Benin Bronzes on display at the British Museum in London. Photo: Joyofmuseums via Wikimedia Commons Benin Bronzes on display at the British Museum in London. Photo: Joyofmuseums via ...

This plaque is now in the British Museum in London. Metal workers in Benin made beautiful plaques, masks and statues for the Oba. These are often called 'Benin Bronzes', however most are actually ...

The German government returned some of the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria– 125 years after they were stolen by the British troops in 1897. Cultural historian ... Secondly, there is a change in museum ...

Can the ethnographic museum be reinvented? Can the ethnographic museum be reinvented? Benin Bronzes at the British Museum. In 1931, Paris hosted a spectacular event called the International Colonial ...

MOWAA teamed up with the British Museum ... There will, however, be no Benin Bronzes on show at the museum—at least for now. While the Edo state government had initially envisaged MOWAA as ...