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The British Museum's Plan to Return Benin Bronzes
The British Museum is a member of the Benin Dialogue Group and they've given a few million dollars toward a proposed museum in Nigeria. The museum declined our multiple requests for an interview, which seems to be what they do when anyone asks them to discuss the situation. Oxford's Dan Hicks has become perhaps the loudest voice of those scolding the British Museum to change their ways. This position is possible in part because his museum, the Pit Rivers, recently declared it will work to return the nearly 100 Benin objects in its collection.