Western museums are returning artefacts to countries of origin

A museum in London has returned its entire collection of Benin Bronzes to the Nigerian government.

London’s Horniman Museum has returned its collection of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. They were stolen in the late 1800s by British colonial troops after they invaded the Kingdom of Benin in what is now Nigeria.

The artefacts ended up in museums in Europe and the United States.

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