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The royal leader of the Kingdom of Benin sought the return of artifacts displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The ...
The wealthy donor who pledged them to the museum asked they be returned to him amid talks to transfer ownership to their ...
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WOKE calls to return British Museum’s Benin Bronzes to Nigeria should be rejected, Sir Trevor Philips says.  The former ...
Among the most evocative looted object is Tipu Sultan’s mechanical tiger, a wooden automaton depicting a tiger mauling a ...
The repatriation of African art is gaining momentum, but a number of highly important and symbolic pieces remain in the hands ...
Boston will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on 28 April, but most of the works it had been created to display will not be repatriated to their place of origin. Instead, all but five of the objects ...
A world-class university has claimed that Britain’s South Pole exploration was “colonial” although no one actually lived ...
The Museum of Fine Arts will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on April 28, the museum announced Tuesday. The gallery opened in ...