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London Museum will return stolen Art to Nigeria

By Reuters
09 August 2022   |   5:58 am
London’s Horniman Museum and Gardens has agreed to return 72 looted objects to the Nigerian government. All objects were taken from the Kingdom of Benin, now part of southern Nigeria, during a British military operation in 1897.

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