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

The head of the German foreign ministry’s culture department visited Nigeria last week for discussions with the Edo State Governor

Initiative by the Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh is supported by Dresden’s state museums

We speak to museum experts András Szántó and Sonia Lawson. Plus, Dan Hicks on the legacy of colonial looting and National Gallery curator Christopher Riopelle on the Polish painter Jan Matejko

Ghanaian-British architect is working with the British Museum and Nigerian organisations to show “the most comprehensive display in the world of Benin Bronzes”

The curator and University of Oxford professor tells us about his new book, The Brutish Museums, which details how museums themselves were “used as a unique type of weapon”

Isaiah Ogundele, who demonstrated outside the Museum of London, Docklands for the objects' repatriation, failed to appear at his court hearing earlier this month

Defendant was charged with using “threatening, abusive, insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause harassment, alarm or distress” during incident in January

Academics challenge the provenance of the Edo plaque as well as two Igbo alusi figures that sold under estimate for €212,500

London institution was criticised for proclaiming that it "stands in solidarity with the Black community" while continuing to resist calls to restitute colonial-era loot

Controversial statue was dismantled and thrown into the harbour during a Black Lives Matter rally

When British troops plundered the Royal Palace of Benin in the 19th century, at least 3,000 objects were dispersed internationally. A new online database is bringing them together

Project is backed by the Ernst von Siemens art foundation, which seeks “a more factual focus to the discussions about restitution”

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery wants to work in tandem with the Benin Dialogue Group, which is made up of institutions that hold the majority of the pieces

Statue of a cockerel was looted by the British in 1897 from the Court of Benin

As debate grows over Europe's 19th-century cultural plunder of Africa, the key is to ensure meaningful access