The British Museum was partially closed over the weekend after an ex-employee allegedly shut down its security and IT systems ...

(LONDON) — A British museum will return 72 artifacts to the Nigerian government that were forcibly taken over a hundred years ago. The Horniman Museum and Gardens agreed to hand over the artifacts, ...

The British Museum is facing an "omni-crisis" as it launches a £150,000 rebrand project following a series of controversies ...

The objects were plundered by British forces from ... institutional change”, and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology returned more than 100 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria.

An exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly ...

Sculptures looted by British soldiers from the Kingdom ... that appear to be hindering the Benin Bronzes from coming home.” The American Museum of Natural History closed its Eastern Woodlands ...

Across Europe, political upheaval is disrupting efforts to return colonial-era museum acquisitions to ... Among the first to pledge to restitute Benin bronzes to Nigeria, for instance, were ...

The British Museum is facing an "omni-crisis" as it launches a £150,000 rebrand project following a series of controversies that have shaken its historical foundations. "Beset by colonial ...

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The museum says that a recently dismissed contractor was was able to get back into the building and shut down several systems chrisdorney via Adobe Stock The British Museum is once again ...

Benin became famous for its bronzes, intricate art cast in bronze ... to protect his kingdom by avoiding all contact with the British. In 1897, a group of British officials tried to visit Benin ...

A former British Museum employee has been arrested after allegedly breaking in and shutting down the museum's security and IT systems. The person - who had recently been fired - "trespassed" at ...