The Museum of Fine Arts will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on April 28, the museum announced Tuesday. The gallery opened in 2013 after the MFA accepted works lent from the collection of Robert Owen ...

The items stolen in the late 19th Century by British troops will officially be returned to Nigeria.

Things came to a head in November, when protesters stormed a glitzy preview event for officials and foreign guests. The intruders, echoing the oba, demanded that the museum be suspended pending an ...

The wealthy donor who pledged them to the museum asked they be returned to him amid talks to transfer ownership to their African land of origin There is not much time left to view the masterful and ...

By Kazeem Sanni and Sodiq Adelakun BENIN CITY, Nigeria, Feb 11 (Reuters) - As European museums return looted Benin Bronzes, ...

History came full circle in a powerful display of culture and justice as 119 looted Benin artefacts were returned by the Netherlands to the palace of Oba Ewuare II. The repatriation—the largest ever ...

At a ceremony Friday in New York City, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts returned two works of art that were stolen from present-day Nigeria more than a century ago. Commemorative head, 16th–17th century.

The Benin Kingdom is one of the most long lasting and flourishing monarchies in the world but it started from somewhere. The first king of the Benin kingdom was Eweka 1, son of the Yoruba prince ...

Artist community in Lagos couldn’t have wished for a more merrier and rewarding week than penultimate week, when the National Museum, Onikan, Lagos hosted a solo travelling exhibition by Dr. (Princess ...