Returning the Benin Bronzes
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2024
- In 1897, during the violent sacking of Benin City by British armed forces, thousands of artefacts were removed and subsequently sold in London.
116 objects, known as Benin Bronzes, eventually entered the collection of the University of Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA).
The University is now in the process of arranging for the return of these objects to Nigeria.
In December 2022, the UK’s Charity Commission granted consent for the University to proceed.
In this film, shot at The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the museum’s Director, Professor Nicholas Thomas, and its Senior Curator in Anthropology, Dr Mark Elliott, explain how the Benin Bronzes entered the collection, why the University is now returning them, and how this process has developed.
They also pay tribute to exceptional artistic and cultural significance of the Benin Bronzes themselves.
The film includes footage of a number of the Benin Bronzes in question on display in the museum.
Read the full story here: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/beninreturn
These artifacts are proudable properties they own, return them soon.
La place de ces bronzes est au Nigeria. Idem pour ceux du British Museum !
Mais il faut en garder en Europe.
The Queens mother or the kings mother?
Return it to the owner
The brass in the statues came from bracelets made by the Portuguese used to trade with black slave traders for black slaves. Slavery continued in Benin long after slavery had been abolished in Britain (the first country in the world to outlaw slavery). Britain was trying to end slavery in Benin, as well as the awful practise of human sacrifice, when it’s trade delegation to Benin were slaughtered. That’s why Britain responded by invading. Britain is why there is no slave trade there now. No human sacrifice. And we left a large modern city in its place when we left 60 years ago.
Right. According to this logic, Apple and other tech companies should hand over their products to Congo and other African countries, from where they have been mining and looting raw materials from decades! :)
It's disgraceful , the English parade these stolen artefacts like they created them
I'd be willing to bet that most of the bronzes, once returned to Nigeria, are sold to Russians or Americans or melted down.
its ugly that these and other different cultures artifacts. but sometimes in order to keep things safe “it belongs in a museum!”