Institutions

Institutions

Study each institutional collection of Benin objects and sort the list of institutions by name, object count and country. Selecting an institution gives access to an introduction page with details about the institution, the collected data and an overview of object groups in the collection.
Archivio Storico di Propaganda Fide
Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino
Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
Barnes Foundation
Bernisches Historisches Museum
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
British Museum
Bryn Mawr College
Buffalo Museum of Sciences
Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham
Cambridge University Library
Davis Museum at Wellesley College
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Glasgow Life Museums
Imperial War Museums
Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Institute for Benin Studies
Textile Mill Rd, Use 300103, Town, Edo, Nigeria
Description

The Institute for Benin Studies is a registered non-profit and non-government organisation founded in 1997 after the centenary conference in commemoration of the British invasion of Benin Kingdom. The Directors and membership cut across academics and professionals, dedicated to the study of the history, culture and ethical values of Edo-Speaking people, and Nigeria in general. To promote the realisation of these shared objectives, the Institute has organised workshops, lectures and international conferences in collaboration with local and international institutions; it has published books, monographs as well as supported other projects/programmes geared towards genuine Edo regeneration. The mission of the institute is to initiate programmes and projects, to promote the study, documentation, preservation and propagation of the language, history, traditions and cultural values, which form the bedrock of the heritage of EDO-SPEAKING PEOPLE, as represented by the ancient Benin Empire.

The Institute holds an open library with rare collections of books by Benin authors and audio-visual archival materials that are made accessible to the public. For more information regarding access to the research material hosted at the Institute, please contact: insbeninst@gmail.com

Archival units
Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library, University of London
Ipswich Museum
Krannert Art Museum | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Landesmuseum Hannover, Das WeltenMuseum
Linden-Museum Stuttgart, Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
Manchester Museum
Maritime Museum, Liverpool National Museums
MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Künste der Welt
Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University
Metropolitan Museum of Art
MKG Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe
Museum der Kulturen Basel
Museum Fünf Kontinente, Staatliche Museen in Bayern
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Museum Rietberg Zürich
Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève
musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
Nationaal Archief, The Hague
Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen and Wereldmuseum
National Archives, Ibadan
National Army Museum
National Gallery of Art
National Museum of the Royal Navy
National Museum, Benin
National Museum, Lagos
Nationalmuseet, National Museum of Denmark
Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Pitt Rivers Museum
Powell-Cotton Museum
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim
Royal Anthropological Institute
Royal Armouries
Royal Museums Greenwich
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
SOAS University of London
South Australian Museum
Staatliche Ethnographische Sammlungen Sachsen und Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Stadtarchiv Freiburg
Statens museer för världskultur
Städtische Museen Freiburg
The Bernie Grant Archive, The Bishopsgate Insititute
The British Library
The National Archives, Kew
University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum)
Victoria and Albert Museum
Wellcome Collection
Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt am Main
Weltmuseum Wien
World Museum, National Museums Liverpool
Übersee-Museum Bremen