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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Josh Halliday

London museum to return 72 Benin treasures to Nigeria

Benin pectoral mask.
A pectoral mask, one of the objects Horniman museum chiefs have agreed to return to Nigeria. Photograph: The Horniman Museum/PA

A London museum is to return 72 treasured artefacts, including its collection of Benin bronzes, to Nigeria in what experts described as an “immensely significant” moment.

The Horniman museum said it would transfer the ownership of the historic objects to the Nigerian government after an unanimous vote by its board of trustees.

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