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Smithsonian Announces Landmark Decision to Repatriate Benin Bronzes

by Cassie Packard March 9, 2022March 9, 2022

The institution says it will return most of the 39 artifacts in its collection to Nigeria for eventual display at the Benin City National Museum.

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Glasgow Museums Will Repatriate 17 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

by Jasmine Liu April 20, 2022April 20, 2022

Also slated for return are seven Indian artifacts and 25 Lakota items, some of them seized from the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre.

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Germany Announces Plan to Return Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

by Hakim Bishara May 2, 2021May 3, 2021

The Edo Museum of West African Art in Benin City is being considered as a future home for the returned artifacts.

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The Met Will Repatriate Two Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

by Valentina Di Liscia June 13, 2021June 11, 2021

Critics note that the Met has failed to address the hundreds of other works from Benin that remain in its collection.

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Smithsonian Takes Benin Bronzes Off Display, Considers Repatriation

by Cassie Packard November 10, 2021November 10, 2021

The National Museum of African Art identified 16 objects from its collection with direct links to the British army’s 1897 punitive raid on the Kingdom of Benin.

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Path Toward Restitution of Benin Bronzes Advances in Germany and UK

by Cassie Packard April 4, 2021April 5, 2021

Thousands of objects were looted from present-day Nigeria by British troops in a punitive mission in 1897.

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Nigerian Artists Offer to Swap Work for British Museum’s Benin Bronzes

by Valentina Di Liscia September 23, 2021September 23, 2021

“We never stopped making the bronzes even after those ones were stolen,” said a founding member of the Ahiamwen Guild. “I think we make them even better now.”

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In Ceremony, Met Museum Officially Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

by Valentina Di Liscia November 22, 2021November 22, 2021

The museum and the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments entered into a shared agreement to collaborate on mutual loans of Benin objects and other “exchanges of expertise and art.”

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How a New Nigerian Museum Can Help Repatriate the Benin Bronzes

by Barnaby Phillips May 12, 2021May 12, 2021

Nigeria’s business leaders will have to give generously; politicians will have to put rivalries aside; and contemporary artists will have to embrace the project.

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Dan Hicks on the Benin Bronzes and Ultraviolence of World Culture Museums

by Cassie Packard January 29, 2021March 28, 2022

“The Brutish Museums” considers the histories of cruelty that western museums perpetuate when they do not endeavor to return looted colonial artifacts.

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A Benin Bronze With Fishy Provenance Goes to Auction

by Erin L. Thompson June 26, 2020March 9, 2021

While conversations about historic monuments ignite public debate, a small sculpture which was likely looted heads to auction at Christie’s Paris.

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Week in Review: 10 Weeks of “Strike MoMA” Conclude; Met Repatriates Two Benin Bronzes

by Jasmine Weber June 17, 2021June 17, 2021

Also, artists are raising funds to benefit a Bethlehem arts center raided by Israeli soldiers, and more.

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