The US Supreme Court has denied a petition to block the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. from restituting 29 Benin ...

The German government returned some of the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria– 125 years after they were stolen by the British troops in 1897. Cultural historian, art and heritage specialist Dr. Oluwatoyin ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In the past few years, Europe and the United States have been returning stolen bronzes from the historical Kingdom of Benin. While today's Benin Bronze casters ...

The Benin Bronzes - thousands of brass, bronze and ivory sculptures and carvings - have become highly charged symbols of injustice. They are originally from what is now Edo State, in southern Nigeria.

Benin art features people ... This will keep my dad busy! My dad is a bronze caster. He makes all kinds of stuff. But the Oba wants him to make a very fancy mask in time for the parade.

Benin Bronzes are exhibited in museums around the world, but the largest collection can be found in the British Museum. While Germany announced the return of the bronzes in its possession, some ...

The Benin Bronzes became known internationally as works of art during the decades they have been in Western museums, but they have a spiritual significance which predates this. They were made by ...

Cambridge holds 116 Bronzes in its Museum of Archaeology ... be housed in the Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA) that it plans to build in Benin City. It is the capital of the former Kingdom ...