Artefacts: Benin Monarch Representatives To Attend Berlin Exhibition

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Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the UK Tunji Ishola (L) and Oba Ewuare II at the ceremony for the return of some of the stolen bronzes in Benin. Photo: Kola Sulaimon/AFP/Getty Images

The representatives of Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, will be led by His Royal Highness, Prince Aghatise Erediuwa, to the Humboldt Forum on September 16 in Berlin, Germany.

The famous Humboldt Forum, a museum of art and culture will play host to art collectors, enthusiasts, and researchers across the globe at its second opening in Germany.

According to the invitation letter made available to newsmen in Benin on the event and jointly endorsed by the General Director Humboldt, Prof. Dr Hartmut Dorgerloh, and the Director Ethnological Museum, Prof. Dr. Lars–Christian Koch, will also host friends, partners and colleagues.

The museum which houses non-European art collections including thousands of artefacts looted from the palace of Benin Kingdom during the 1897 invasion, would be on display at the celebration and commissioning of the last part of opening of Humboldt Forum.

The delegation of German ethnological museum led by Prof Christian Koch had in April 2022, interacted with the Benin Monarch on planned return and restitution of historic Benin artefacts.

Mr Solomon Okuduwa, who provided technical support, had led the German ethnologists to the historic Igun s,treets where they also met with the association of Bronzes casters.

The Forum located in the heart of Berlin is a hub of exhibitions which attract researchers and art lovers and aims to be the cultural destination compared with the London museum.

The museum had announced plans to pursue conversations with Nigerian officials regarding the repatriation of the Benin Bronzes in its collections and pledged to repatriate same.

 

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