Berlin Museum Board Approves Plan to Negotiate Return of Benin Bronzes

Berlin museums have cleared the final hurdle to begin negotiating for the repatriation of Benin Bronzes in their holdings, potentially allowing numerous artifacts to return to Nigeria more than a century after they were looted from the Kingdom of Benin.
The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which oversees the collections of museums in the German capital such as the Ethnological Museum of Berlin and the Neue Nationalgalerie, said on Tuesday that it had authorized the Berlin State Museums to