Fourteen "Benin Bronzes" are returning to Nigeria from the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich. Listen to museum director Prof. Dr. Alice Hertzog telling the story of these remarkable artefacts: How they were looted in the Kingdom of Benin, why they ended up in a Swiss museum, and how collaborative research ultimately paved the way to their restitution.
Historical photographs:
Ancestral Shrine, Royal Palace, Benin City, Nigeria
National Museum of African Art
EEPA 1993-014 Smithsonian Institution
British Soldiers in the Oba’s palace with bronze plaques
1998.208.15.11 Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
Members of British Expedition to Benin City in 1897
1613769941 The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.
Film & Production:
Katharina Weins, Ginger Hobi-Ragaz
© University of Zurich