The Stanley Museum of Art is now the first U.S. institution to return works to the former Benin royal family. Court officials carrying the Benin Bronzes during the restitution ceremony. Photo by ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's national museum commission will be responsible for retrieving and keeping priceless Benin Bronzes, taking on the task with the assent of the royal ruler appointed sole ...

The Museum of Fine Arts in the US city of Boston has returned two of the famed Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, authorities in the west African nation said late on Monday. The move represents "the return of ...

The City of Zurich responded to a restitution claim filed by Nigeria.

Court officials carrying the Benin Bronzes during the restitution ceremony (all photos by Omoregie Osakpolor, courtesy Stanley Museum of Art unless noted otherwise) The University of Iowa’s Stanley ...

The Smithsonian Museum of African Art is reportedly planning to return around 12 Benin bronzes that it currently claims ownership of in an agreement that has yet to be signed, in order to repatriate ...

The traditional ruler of the Benin Kingdom in southern Nigeria has welcomed a US museum’s decision to return two precious artefacts stolen by British forces in the 19th century. In a ceremony at the ...

The Berlin Humboldt Forum opens fully to the public this week with a very modern take on the display of cultural items from ...

The museum will return the items in an agreement with the Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments. A Dutch museum will repatriate its portion of the Benin Bronzes to their rightful ...

These are pendants worn by high ranking officials in Benin The Netherlands says it will return more than 100 Benin Bronzes that British troops looted from Nigeria in the late 19th Century and which ...

The Museum of Fine Arts Boston has returned two Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, marking a key step in the country’s ongoing cultural restitution efforts. The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston has returned ...