The wealthy donor who pledged them to the museum asked they be returned to him amid talks to transfer ownership to their ...

Robert Owen Lehman, whose forebear co-founded finance giant Lehman Bros., collected music manuscripts, directed movies, and ...

WOKE calls to return British Museum’s Benin Bronzes to Nigeria should be rejected, Sir Trevor Philips says.  The former ...

In an unprecedented move for a United States arts institution, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will return a promised gift ...

Calls to return the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria have been branded “weak” by Britain’s former anti-racism tsar. Sir Trevor ...

The Museum of Fine Arts will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on April 28, the museum announced Monday. The gallery opened in ...

Case of artefacts looted by British soldiers is ‘more complex than a simple matter of right or wrong’, warns Sir Trevor ...

A Benin Bronze artefact will return to Nigeria after being at Jesus College, Cambridge, for over 100 years. The statue of a cockerel, known as the "Okukur", was taken by British colonial forces in ...

The British Museum must not succumb to pressure to return the Benin Bronzes to Africa, as the case for their restitution is 'weak', Sir Trevor Phillips has said. The former head of the Racial ...

2022 marks the 125th anniversary of the British Punitive Expedition, which saw thousands of sculptures and cultural artefacts stolen during the destruction of Benin City (in present-day Nigeria).

Three years ago, the Horniman Museum agreed to return 72 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. The museum’s chair hailed the decision as ...

The Benin Bronzes should not be sent back to Africa, Britain’s former anti-racism tsar has said. Sir Trevor Phillips, who previously led the Commission for Racial Equality, said the case for ...