Museums worldwide are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Here's why it matters, who's receiving them, and what it means ...

The ancient city of Benin, the Edo State capital, witnessed an artistic rebirth when some legendary and emerging Nigerian visual artists converged on the red city for a 10-day Benin Art Fair. The ...

In the ancient town of Ouidah, located in southern Benin, the annual Voodoo Festival unfolds with a vibrant mix of dance, rituals, and spiritual fervour. Children dressed in vivid robes whirl to ...

As 2025 began, we wondered if looted art would return home this year —be it paintings illegally seized by Nazis, the Parthenon Marbles, or the Benin Bronzes. In this timeline, T&C will keep ...

Matthew Teitelbaum has presided over the MFA as museums across the country have become arenas of cultural struggle.

The terracotta and iron Commemorative Head from the 16th or 17th century and a 16th–century bronze Relief Plaque Showing Two ...

Nigeria to open MOWAA in Benin City in Nov. 2025, showcasing West African art and repatriated Benin Bronzes in a world-class ...

The Museum of Fine Arts will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on April 28, the museum announced Tuesday. The gallery opened in 2013 after the MFA accepted works lent from the collection of Robert Owen ...

The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) is pleased to announce the official public opening of the first phase of its Campus ...

The Benin Bronzes were stolen from Africa during colonial times ART | AGENCIES | It took more than a century but they are ...

The two pieces were returned as part of the museum’s colonial-era provenance program which looks to identify artifacts that ...

The Netherlands has agreed to return a collection of 119 artifacts to Nigeria, the latest objects to be sent back to their homelands as museums grapple with their colonial-era holdings.