It took more than a century but they are finally home. The Netherlands have returned 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, nearly 130 years after they were looted by British colonial troops. This shipment is ...

The Rietberg Museum in Zurich, which dates to the early 1950s, owes its origins to a collection largely amassed in the 1920s ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Netherlands on Thursday returned 119 artifacts looted from Nigeria, including human and animal figures, plaques, royal regalia and a bell. The artifacts, known as the Benin ...

Geneva And Zurich Return Goods To Nigeria. The Ethnography Museums of Geneva and Zurich and the Rietberg Museum in Zurich are to return 28 artefacts from the Kingdom of Benin to Nigeria. Research has ...

The museum will return the items in an agreement with the Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments. A Dutch museum will repatriate its portion of the Benin Bronzes to their rightful ...

Left to right: "Worked elephant tusk" (1500–1891), Benin; "Head of a prince (Oba)" (1600-1750), Benin; "Statue of a leopard" (c. 19th century), Benin; and "19th Century Staff with 'bird of prophecy'" ...

The opening of the multi-million-dollar Museum of West African Arts has been delayed due to protests. Early plans saw it as the home of the restituted Benin Bronzes. What happened since?Uncertainty ...

The Smithsonian Museum of African Art is reportedly planning to return around 12 Benin bronzes that it currently claims ownership of in an agreement that has yet to be signed, in order to repatriate ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) recently announced the closure of its Benin Kingdom Gallery and the return of two bronzes from its collection to the emperor of Benin, the Oba, in Nigeria. This ...

Germany signed an agreement on Thursday to transfer ownership to Nigeria of the Benin Bronzes, which were looted in the 19th century. The Benin Bronze is a historic artwork that features different ...

The Museum of Fine Arts in the US city of Boston has returned two of the famed Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, authorities in the west African nation said late on Monday. The move represents "the return of ...