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Ciarán Fahey

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which oversees Berlin’s museums, is responsible for all the colonial loot, including Benin Bronzes, and a huge collection of human remains. Its president, Hermann Parzinger, says everything has to go back. But it’s not so easy.

Text in Berlin's Humboldt Forum saying "Confronting colonial pasts, envisioning creative futures."
A Benin Bronze in memory of a local ruler now on show in Berlin's Humboldt Forum.
A label for a Benin Bronze showing it's from Udo, Nigeria, made of copper alloy, and stolen by "unidentified collectors" around 1897. Germany "acquired" it in 1901 from Stevens Auction Rooms.
Mar 23, 2025, 01:38 PM·Public·Web
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