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With London’s Horniman Museum announcing it’ll hand over ownership of its 72 bronzes to Nigeria, home to Benin City, which the British looted in 1897, the floodgates for a tide of repatriations are now well and truly open.
NEWCASTLE’s Discovery Museum is in line for a huge renovation in the hope of turning it into a “major attraction” for the city.
Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums said 'repatriation can be a powerful cultural, spiritual and symbolic act which restores some sense of justice.' | ITV News Tyne Tees
The item was "taken violently" by the British military during the Punitive Expedition in 1897.
The item was "taken violently" by the British military during the Punitive Expedition in 1897.