Pluto Press (uk)

Pluto Press (uk) - The brutish museums: the benin bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution, hardcover/dan hicks

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Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire.

They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit.

Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin.

They do not mention that the objects are all stolen.

Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of metal plaques and sculptures depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of Benin City, Nigeria.