US EditionNetherlands to Return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria in Historic Repatriation
- The Netherlands will return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, as stated by the Dutch embassy in Abuja.
- The artefacts include 113 bronzes from the Dutch State Collection and others from the Municipality of Rotterdam, with an expected arrival later this year.
- Olugbile Holloway, director-general of Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments, described this return as the largest return of ancient antiquities from the Netherlands.
- Dutch Minister of Culture, Education, and Science Eppo Bruins emphasized that this return helps address a historical injustice that is still felt today.
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Nigeria to receive single-largest antiquities return of 119 Benin Bronzes from Netherlands
The Netherlands has pledged to return to Nigeria no fewer than 199 Benin Bronzes looted by British troops who invaded the Benin City in the late 18th century. The European country made this known in a statement by its embassy in Abuja on Wednesday, February 19, 2025. The valuable artefacts were looted during the British invasion and ended up in a museum in the Netherlands, which the country said shouldn't have happened. The number of bronzes is …
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The Netherlands agrees to return more than 100 artifacts to Nigeria looted during colonial times
The Netherlands has agreed to return a collection of 119 artifacts to Nigeria, the latest objects to be sent back to their homelands as museums grapple with their colonial-era holdings. The artifacts, known as the Benin Bronzes, were looted in…
Netherlands to return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, Dutch embassy in Abuja says
Nigeria is trying to find thousands of bronze sculptures and castings that were looted by British soldiers during a raid on the then-separate Kingdom of Benin, located in what’s now southwestern Nigeria
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