Horniman museum is first government-funded institution to hand back artefacts looted by British forces in 1897
Photograph: The Horniman Museum/PAPhotograph: The Horniman Museum/PAA London museum is to return 72 treasured artefacts, including its collection of Benin bronzes, toThe Horniman museum said it would transfer the ownership of the historic objects to the Nigerian government after an unanimous vote by its board of trustees., the first government-funded institution to hand back treasures looted by British forces from Benin city in 1897.
The decision by the museum’s board follows a consultation with London’s Nigerian community, launched in 2020, after activists added the Horniman to the “Topple the Racists” database of sites and monuments linked to colonialism. He said: “It comes hot on the heels of the announcement from Oxford and Cambridge. They were the largest commitment we’d seen from the UK so far.
“Up until now it had been individual objects one at a time, in stark contrast to the over 1,100 that have been committed to be returned by the German federal government.”, said the move would increase pressure on the British Museum to change its position on the return of artefacts.
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