Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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On August 25, 2022, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation), and Abba Isa Tijani, Director General of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), signed the contract on the transfer of ownership of the Benin objects... Read more
On August 25, 2022, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation), and Abba Isa Tijani, Director General of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), signed the contract on the transfer of ownership of the Benin objects from the collection of the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz to Nigeria. The agreement regards 512 objects which came to Berlin in the aftermath of the so-called British Punitive Expedition and looting of Benin in 1897. This is the most extensive transfer of ownership of museum objects from a colonial context to date. The first objects will be physically returned to Nigeria within this year. Around a third of the objects transferred will remain on loan in Berlin for an initial period of ten years and will be exhibited in the Humboldt Forum. Information on the identified object IDs in this transfer of ownership will be communicated in to Digital Benin in the future. For more information please follow the link to the [press release](www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de/fileadmin/user_upload_SPK/documents/presse/pressemitteilungen/2022/220825_Benin-Rueckgabe_ENG.pdf).
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