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A Rising Ruckus Over Benin Bronzes Prompts Questions for the Nelson-Atkins – KC STUDIO

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Met Artifact Return Highlights Museums Legal, Ethical Risks

ADVERTISEMENT Met Artifact Return Highlights Museums Legal, Ethical Risks Law360 (July 12, 2021, 5:21 PM EDT) The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City recently made headlines with the announcement of its decision[1] to return three artifacts to Nigeria: a pair of 16th-century Benin court brass plaques of a warrior chief and junior court official, and a 14th-century Ife head. This move followed similar announcements by Scotland s University of Aberdeen and Germany s Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin, and is indicative of a growing repatriation movement. The Met s decision signals a movement toward conscientious conservatorship rooted in ethical concern. However, the complex U.S. regulations governing the trade of artwork and cultural property often make repatriation a legal matter.

Germany Reveals Digital Database of Its Benin Bronzes

A Benin Bronze in Berlin’s Ethnological Museum. Photo: Bin im Garten/Wikipedia Commons. June 21, 2021 at 5:04pm Following up on its promise earlier this year to return its trove of Benin bronzes to Nigeria, and to do so transparently, Germany has lifted the veil on a comprehensive digital database offering images and provenances of the looted artworks in its possession, Artnews reports. The website, German Contact Points for Collections from Colonial Contexts, offers images and provenances for the objects and will continue to be updated as the repatriation process moves ahead. The step is the latest taken by Germany, which has led its counterparts in the effort to return its share of the more than 90,000 brass, bronze, and ivory objects stolen by British soldiers in 1897 from the Republic of Benin (now Nigeria) and scattered across the Continent and throughout the world. Some five hundred of the purloined items are estimated to be held in the collec

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