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17 wrz 2022 · London’s Horniman Museum has announced it’ll hand over ownership of its 72 bronzes to Nigeria, home to Benin City, which the British looted in 1897. We investigate their story.
28 lis 2022 · The Horniman Museum in south-east London is returning 72 items, including so-called Benin Bronzes, to Nigerian ownership - making it the first in the UK to officially take such action on this...
14 wrz 2022 · Barnaby Phillips’s reporting proved that two Benin plaques acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1991 had been stolen from the Murray-era collection in the National Museum. ( The Met...
24 sie 2023 · Nigerian and Greek officials have demanded the return of treasures after thousands of items were stolen from the British Museum. More than 900 Benin Bronze pieces and the Parthenon Marbles - also known as Elgin Marbles - are now the centre of renewed calls for repatriation amid accusations the British Museum's security cannot be trusted.
30 kwi 2021 · Germany has agreed to return to Nigeria priceless artefacts that were stolen during the colonisation of Africa. British troops looted thousands of artworks known as the Benin Bronzes from the...
Display and interpretation of Benin “Bronzes” Within months of the Punitive Expedition at Benin City, some of the stolen loot was displayed in various museums in London. For example, 300 plaques were loaned to the British Museum and exhibited.
27 paź 2021 · It is one of thousands of metal sculptures and ivory carvings made between the 15th and 19th Centuries and looted by British troops in 1897 from the West African kingdom of Benin, in modern day...
