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Nigeria is expected to receive over 100 Benin Bronze artifacts that were stolen during British imperialism, ... In 2026, Nigeria plans to open the Edo Museum of West African Art in Benin City.
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. It was one of many art works ...
In 2022, the German government reached an agreement to return more than 1,000 of its Benin works to Nigeria. In the same year, In the same year, the Smithsonian Institution in the US announced ...
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.