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

The Benin Court plaques donated in 1991 with more than 150 other works, have been deaccessioned, while a third object, an Ife Head offered for purchase, will instead be restituted

New government initiative MuseumsLab aims to foster more international co-operation and consider topics including decolonisation and restitution

Grants are available for institutions with individual Benin artefacts or small collections

“We are facing up to our historical and moral responsibility”, says culture minister Monika Grütters

Aberdeen University is returning its looted 18th-century oba head to the Nigerian federal government

Around 160 institutions hold looted Benin artefacts, but how many are prepared to give them back? We asked museums in five countries for their position on restitution

With institutions across the globe rethinking their views on restitution, the African country’s focus is now on making a home for its heritage

As restitution momentum builds, director of Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art says it could lead discussions for the return of looted Benin objects in US museum collections

South London museum has released new policies on restitution but says it will need to seek legal advice about the right to return artefacts

The exhibition will include around half of Berlin’s collection of Benin bronzes as Germany lays groundwork to return them to Nigeria

Plus, the newly discovered Van Gogh is sold and artist Rana Begum on Tess Jaray

Monika Grütters says she will meet museum directors and trustees next month

The sculpture of an oba’s head was “acquired in a way that we now consider to have been extremely immoral,” the university says

“There is simply no moral ground for the confiscation of African artefacts in Western museums,” says the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe

Germany's plans to return the artefacts are just the beginning of a necessary undoing of the art world's white infrastructure