A new platform, Digital Benin, brings together over 5000 objects scattered across museums around the world today to provide a transparent database of the Benin Bronzes, which were looted from the West African Kingdom of Benin by British soldiers in 1897.
An NGA spokesperson tells ArtsHub: ‘The National Gallery of Australia is delighted to recognise the launch of Digital Benin. The website represents an extraordinary resource for the material culture and history of the Kingdom of Benin in present day Nigeria, and for the many thousands of objects looted during the British “punitive expedition” of 1897, now dispersed in museum and private collections worldwide.
