The repatriation of African art is gaining momentum, but a number of highly important and symbolic pieces remain in the hands ...

The royal leader of the Kingdom of Benin sought the return of artifacts displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The ...

Tiny soldier figurines play fifes and drums in front of a model of Colonial Williamsburg’s Capitol. Figurines of women in ...

Last month, the Richmond museum opened its exhibition, “Give Me Liberty: Virginia & the Forging of a Nation,” with an array ...

The museum had sought to transfer ownership of 30 historic bronzes, originally plundered in a bloody colonial raid, to the ...

For the Buddhists who deposited these relics — as for Buddhists today — the gems, bone and ash all belong to the Buddha and ...

Boston will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on 28 April, but most of the works it had been created to display will not be repatriated to their place of origin. Instead, all but five of the objects ...

Back in 1898, British landowner William Claxton Peppé ordered the desecration of the stupa on his colonial ... display, people came to meditate in their presence. Over the last six years, the ...