Zurich Museum Transfers Ownership of 11 Looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

Zurich Museum Transfers Ownership of 11 Looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

The City of Zurich responded to a restitution claim filed by Nigeria.

Zurich Transfers Ownership of Looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

Switzerland’s Museum Rietberg has transferred ownership of 11 looted artifacts to Nigeria, according to the city of Zurich, which oversees the museum. They are just a few of the estimated thousands of works of art taken when British forces raided Edo, the capital of the Kingdom of Benin (now Edo state in modern-day Nigeria), in 1897. Dispersed among collections in the West, these objects have been the focus of a long—and in recent years, highly …