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Europe would have done better to tolerate the non-European civilizations at its side, leaving them alive, dynamic, and prosperous, whole and not mutilated; that it would have been better to let them develop and fulfil themselves than to present for our admiration, duly labeled, their dead and scattered parts; that anyway, the museum by itself is nothing; that it means nothing, vanity. can say nothing, when smug self-satisfaction rots the eyes, when a secret contempt for others withers the he

Some 17,000 human remains are said to be in the collections of German museums and universities. It's often no longer clear how they ended up in Germany.

The Netherlands announced a major repatriation of nearly 500 looted cultural objects dating to the colonial era.

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 proce...

A Benin Bronze held in the collection of Berlin’s Bode Museum.Photo: Richard Mortel/Flickr. April 30, 2021 at 3:41pm Germany has promised to return its trove of looted artworks known as the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria beginning in 2022. Some five hundred of the more than 90,000 brass, bronze, and ivory objects stolen by British soldiers in 1897 from the Republic of Benin (now Nigeria) are held in the collection of Berlin’s Ethnologisches Museum at the Humboldt Forum, with still more in the possession of more than twenty other museums across the country. “We want...