The Museum of West African Art, based in Benin City, Nigeria, announced Thursday that it will officially open its campus to the public on Nov. 11.

For many in Nigeria, the Benin Bronzes are a potent reminder of the violence of colonialism. The NCMM has issued formal repatriation requests to museums across the world.

It is notable that the MFA’s artifacts were not restituted to the state of Nigeria, like those from the Netherlands, but to the current monarch of the ancient Kingdom of Benin, whose great-great ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art will display nine works from the royal court of Benin in a special exhibition opening Monday, June 3. These artworks were some of the 29 pieces that ...

The ancient city of Benin, the Edo State capital, witnessed an artistic rebirth when some legendary and emerging Nigerian visual artists converged on the red city for a 10-day Benin Art Fair.

The Benin Bronzes are indispensable to Nigeria. It is good that they are going back," Bruins said. The so-called Benin Bronzes were stolen from Nigeria's Kingdom of Benin by British soldiers in 1897.

The Edo or Bini (from the word "Benin") people are an ethnic group primarily found in Edo State, and spread across the Delta, Ondo, and Rivers states of Nigeria.

The Benin Bronze piece, held at the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art since 1986, was returned to the Royal Court in a July 15 ceremony in Benin City, Nigeria.