Formal requirement for government licences may well prove to be yet another obstacle to a loan agreement for the Parthenon Marbles

Many of the works investigated show a direct link to the violent 1897 raid by British forces, and may lead to the transfer of objects to Nigeria

The agreement—signed by the two countries in July—involves the return of 1,100 objects in total

The Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum is the latest Western institution to return its collection of artefacts looted from Nigeria in the late-19th century

Restitution Study Group have lost their first legal battle but insist the case is still pending

"Digital Benin" catalogue gathers together information on objects stolen from the Kingdom of Benin and now held in collections around the world

The National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum marked the return of the sculptures with a ceremony in Washington, DC

Twenty years since its conception and at a cost of around €680m, the new German museum must now follow through on its restitution promises

Major restitution development coincides with publication of new Arts Council England guidelines

More than 1,100 looted items will be transferred though some artefacts will remain on loan to German museums

The new policy, adopted by all Smithsonian museums on 29 April, will allow each institution to tailor it to their particular collections and provenance considerations

Stolen artefacts will be given back to Nigeria, India and a Native American tribe

Restitution agreement must still be approved by the museum's Board of Regents

Victor Ehikhamenor's towering work has been placed beside the building's memorial to the man who led the plunder of the Benin bronzes in 1897

The full story of colonial plundering lies not in museum displays but in unopened, uncatalogued boxes in store rooms

Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle seeks "proactive repatriation" after "forceful removal" by British troops in 1897

Government museums body takes control of repatriated artefacts after ruler of Benin challenges new trust set up to unify Nigerian claimants

Though country was not a colonial power, major museums in Vienna have acquisitions of colonial goods

Ethnological museum in the port city has one of Germany's largest collections of Benin treasures

We look back on a year of museums commandeered as Covid-19 vaccine centres, masterpieces sold as NFTs and much talk over the Benin bronzes

As Jesus College confronts its ties to slavery, the Pakistani Neo-miniature artist asks whether decolonisation need necessarily be a violent process

The museum is “eager to work with the relevant parties in Nigeria” to restitute the sculpture

Two 16th century brass plaques and a 14th century Ife head have been returned to Nigeria

The director of the Pitt Rivers Museum says the report is a step in the restitution process

“We cannot build for the future without making our best effort at healing the wounds of the past,” the museum’s director says

Following restitution of a cockerel sculpture by Jesus College, the University of Aberdeen will hand over another looted artefact in a ceremony today

A contract transferring ownership to Nigeria is planned for spring 2022

The exhibition Benin: the Restitution of 26 Works from the Royal Treasures of Abomey at Musée du quai Branly–Jacques Chirac will be on view for five days in October

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation aims for the first restitutions to Nigeria next year, requests “detailed timetable” for negotiations

The 17th-century oba head was plucked from the Nigerian National Museum and given to Elizabeth II as a thank-you gift