Òtù Nkwurịta Okwu Benin

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Plate Bronze na-agbanwe anya eze ọdịnala Oba Orhogbua, 1550-1578 OA nke ndị Edo na Nigeria, ugbu a na Horniman Museum, United Kingdom.

Otu Benin Dialogue Group bụ otu ndị na-arụkọ ọrụ ọnụ na mba ụwa nke na-achịkọta ndị sitere na ụlọ ihe mgbe ochie nke dị n'Ebe Ọdịda achị na ndị ọchịchị nke Gọọmenti Naijiria, onye nwe Royal nke Benin, na ndị ohu nke Benin.  Na-ahụ Maka Ndị dike ihe ngosi nka na Ncheta nke Nigeria.  LED ya bụ imekọ ihe ọnụ n'etiti ụlọ ngosi ihe mgbe ochie nwere ihe nketa omenala Naijiria na ihe ngosi na-adịgide adịgide na Benin City, ngwaọrụ Benin Bronzes .

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The group's mission is to "work together to establish a museum in Benin City that will make permanent exhibitions [for] combining Benin's scattered works of art with collections around the world."  [1] This group was established in 2007 [2] and is one of the central institutions for negotiations for the return of cultural objects that were confiscated from Benin City as part of the punitive expedition carried out by the British army in 1897, which led to the destruction  and destruction.  spread of the ancient civilization of the country.  [3] The group's negotiations focused on turning over long-term loans from some western teams, [4] while Nigerian teams are looking for a return.  Hamburg Museum Director Barbara Plankensteiner emphasized that the group has no right to decide on any return, which is the legal responsibility of the various governing bodies.  Also, the collaboration has resulted in a proposal by Ghanaian-British architect Sir David Adjaye to design a museum in Benin City

Consortium members include Edo State Government, Royal Court of Benin, Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Abuja, Museum of Ethnology, Vienna, Ethnological Museum of the State Museums of Berlin, Museum am Rothenbaum (MARKK) of Hamburg, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden  , Dresden Museum of Ethnology and Leipzig Museum of Ethnology, Linden Museum of Stuttgart, National Museum van Wereldculturen of the Netherlands, Museum of World Culture in Stockholm, Museum of Archeology and Anthropology of the University of Cambridge, British Museum and Pitt Rivers Museum of the University.  of Oxford.

Following the French Report on the restitution of African cultural heritage in 2018, there has been a greater focus on returning ownership to Nigeria, rather than loans, and has led to returns by the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and Jesus College, Cambridge, in October 2021. In November 2021, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) returned two brass plaques from its collection to the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NNCMM) and signed a memorandum of understanding on further cooperation. This was accomplished after procedures relating to the authority to return such cultural items had resulted in definitive legal agreements between the owners and Nigerian collections. Thus, some members of the Benin Dialogue Group, such as the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Cambridge and notably the Ethnological Museum of Berlin and other collections in Germany have agreed to return large numbers of Benin Bronzes. In return, the Nigerian authorities accepted to leave some pieces on long-term loans in Western collections.