New report calls for return of human remains – but UK museums lack the resources to act
The display of human remains in museums has long been a contentious issue. Last week, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for ...
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Olugbile Holloway On The Return & Significance of 113 Benin Bronzes From the Netherlands
On 19 February 2025, a significant moment in history unfolded in Leiden, Netherlands. A signing ceremony confirmed the ...
Why UK museums aren’t handing back human remains, despite calls to do so
This would include banning their public display without consent from the Human Tissue Authority and ensuring that museums ...
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Tourist admission fees at UK national museums would be ‘ideologically at odds’ with their global collections, says new report
A new report published by the Cultural Policy Unit—an independent UK think tank—says that introducing admission charges for ...
The Art Newspaper13d
Charging tourists to visit UK museums would be ‘ideologically at odds’ with their global collections, says new report
A new report published by the Cultural Policy Unit—an independent UK think tank—says that introducing admission charges for ...
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Netherlands to return over 100 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
The London museum houses over 900 Benin Bronzes. While the museum insists ... s director told the press at the time. Although UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has expressed more openness to ...
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Nigeria's museum agrees with royal ruler on custody of Benin Bronzes
LAGOS, Feb 26 (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 ...
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Benin Bronzes: A legacy of colonial looting
where the Benin Bronzes originate. In the United Kingdom, institutions such as the Horniman Museum and Cambridge University have returned only a few items to Nigeria. This piecemeal approach ...
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Nigeria’s museum to oversee return of Benin bronzes
Cleared ...
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Netherlands agrees to return 119 Benin statues to Nigeria
The majority of these 19th-century African sculptures, however, remain in France and the UK ... Museum, they were created from the 1500s onwards in the West African Kingdom of Benin by a ...