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11 paź 2022 · Under a new agreement, the NCMM will make nine Benin bronzes available to the NMAA as loans, a Smithsonian spokesperson says.
19 cze 2023 · Despite Nigeria – including the city of Benin – becoming independent, this invasion has resulted in the scattering of the Benin Bronzes all over the world, in Western institutions. The legal discussion and current status of the Benin Bronzes. In the last few decades, Nigeria has tried to get the Benin Bronzes back to their country of origin.
14 wrz 2022 · In February 1897, an expeditionary force of 1,200 British soldiers and African auxiliaries crossed the moats and ancient mud walls around the city of Benin, in what is today southern Nigeria ...
20 gru 2022 · Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has handed 22 artefacts looted in the 19th Century back to Nigeria at a ceremony in the capital, Abuja. The return of this set of Benin Bronzes...
The agreement covers 512 objects that came to Berlin in the aftermath of the so-called British Punitive Expedition and looting of Benin in 1897. They will now be returned to Nigerian hands. This is the most extensive transfer of ownership of museum objects from a colonial context to date.
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...
10 lis 2021 · In June, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced plans to repatriate two bronze plaques in its collections. And last month, the Universities of Cambridge and Aberdeen became the first...
