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UK’s Horniman Museum to Return 72 Benin Artifacts to Nigeria

by Jasmine Liu 5 hours agoAugust 8, 2022

It is the first national museum in England to agree to restitute looted Benin items, increasing pressure on the British Museum to do the same.

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Indigenous Groups in Canada Call on the Vatican to Return Their Cultural Belongings

by Elaine Velie July 21, 2022July 21, 2022

First Nations, Métis, and Inuit leaders have asked for their cultural heritage to be returned ahead of the pope’s visit to Canada.

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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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Illegally Trafficked Djenné Figurines in Boston Museum Will Return to Mali

by Cassie Packard February 23, 2022February 23, 2022

The two terracotta works were missing essential paperwork and “raised red flags immediately,” the museum’s provenance curator told Hyperallergic.

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After 70 Years, UC Berkeley Museum Returns Massacre Remains to Wiyot Tribe

by Emily Wilson February 7, 2022February 8, 2022

“They’ve been locked up in boxes and cabinets without having anyone to talk to and sing to them,” shares the tribal historical preservation officer of the Wiyot Tribe.

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The British Government Should Return Tipu’s Treasures to India

by Anindya Sen December 28, 2021December 29, 2021

The UK government’s attempted export ban on Tipu Sultan’s treasures is a double travesty for objects it acquired through loot and plunder.

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How the Met Museum Justifies Looting

by Erin L. Thompson December 22, 2021December 23, 2021

The African Origins exhibition ignores the fact that approximately 160 objects from Benin are held by the museum under ongoing demands for their repatriation.

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Returned to Nepal by the FBI, a Sculpture Becomes a God Again

by Erin L. Thompson December 17, 2021December 17, 2021

Last week, I flew to Nepal and witnessed a ceremony to replace a looted Lakshmi-Narayan sculpture to its original location.

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A Portal Tracks Objects Acquired by German Institutions Through Colonialism

by Jasmine Liu December 2, 2021December 3, 2021

Gerke Dunkhase estimates that only half of the Benin bronzes in Germany are logged on the portal so far, calling the current database a “prototype” of what’s to come.

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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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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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Nearly 250 Antiquities Repatriated to India

by Cassie Packard November 3, 2021November 3, 2021

Almost all of the antiquities, worth an estimated $15 million, were seized from the disgraced antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor.

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