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Museums worldwide are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Here's why it matters, who's receiving them, and what it means ...
The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) is pleased to announce the official public opening of the first phase of its Campus ...
Nigeria to open MOWAA in Benin City in Nov. 2025, showcasing West African art and repatriated Benin Bronzes in a world-class ...
The Benin Bronzes were stolen from Africa during colonial times ART | AGENCIES | It took more than a century but they are ...
The Dutch government agreed to return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria in February, and the official handover ceremony will take place on 21 June. British colonial troops originally stole the ...
The terracotta and iron Commemorative Head from the 16th or 17th century and a 16th–century bronze Relief Plaque Showing Two ...
The British Museum says it is restricted from permanently returning items including Benin Bronzes due to the British Museum ...
The two pieces were returned as part of the museum’s colonial-era provenance program which looks to identify artifacts that ...
Beginning in the late 1930s, Nelson Rockefeller tried to interest the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, which he had begun to collect after a 1933 vacation to ...
Edo State is gearing up to host what promises to be a vibrant cultural festival this December — Edo Carnival 2025: SHINEfest.
T he Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has returned two historic works of art looted from the Benin Kingdom in 1897 to the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba Ewuare II.
A new exhibition is celebrating the contributions of African and African Diaspora artists to the Paris art scene from the ...