A legal agreement transferred ownership from the Smithsonian to representatives of Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments; it was signed in October 2022. Also at that time, a museum ...

Each of the artifacts was looted by British soldiers in an infamous raid of Benin City (present-day Nigeria) in 1897. The best of Artnet News in your inbox. Sign up for our daily newsletter.

SACRED BENIN BRONZES: Campaigners want them returned to their ancestral home Pic: Daniel Bockwold / Picture Alliance (CC) THE BRITISH Museum has said it cannot permanently return looted Benin ...