#beninculture — Public Fediverse posts
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New York Times: Museum’s Benin Bronzes Are Reclaimed by Wealthy Collector. “The fact that so many artifacts were removed by British forces from Benin, in present-day southern Nigeria, has led museums including the Smithsonian to return some of those items to Africa. The repatriation is part of a broader reckoning within the art world about how to handle vast amounts of cultural patrimony […]