Benin Bronzes

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  9/15/2022
  

  Benin Bronzes Have Final German Exhibition Before Repatriation

  "'The recognition of the colonial injustices and the subsequent return of the items “will continue to define our work in the future,' Hermann Parzinger, the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/8/2022
  

  Smithsonian to Return All Benin Bronzes

  The Smithsonian will return works that it has legal title to own but that are linked to an infamous British raid on Benin City in 1897.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/12/2021
  

  Opinion: If U.S. Museums Say Black Lives Matter, then they Should Return Africa’s Stolen Art

  "So far, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have not commented on whether their institutions will return the artifacts that were plundered from the Kingdom of Benin."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/30/2021
  

  Germany Sets Out Plans to Return Benin Bronzes

  “We are facing the historical and moral responsibility to bring Germany’s colonial past to light and to come to terms with it,” Monika Grütters, Germany’s culture minister, said in a news release.