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Berlin (dpa) - Museum experts and politically responsible persons want to advise on April 29 about the further handling of the Benin bronzes in German holdings, which are considered looted property.
Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters had invited to a digital round of talks for this day, it was said on Wednesday in Berlin from the house of the CDU politician.
The aim is to «find a common position in Germany in order to then coordinate the further procedure in dialogue with the Nigerian side».
When announcing the meeting, Grütters had said that dealing with the Benin bronzes was “a touchstone for Germany’s handling of collections from colonial contexts”.
Benin bronzes can be found in numerous German museums.
According to previous plans, some are also to be exhibited in the Berlin Humboldt Forum.
The Ethnological Museum has around 530 historical objects from the Kingdom of Benin, including around 440 bronzes.
Most of the objects came from the British looting in 1897.
According to the information, the management of the German museums of the Benin Dialogue Group with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Berlin), the Linden Museum Stuttgart, the Museum am Rothenbaum Hamburg, the Dresden State Art Collections / State Ethnographic Collections Saxony and the Rautenstrauch were invited for the discussion -Joest Museum Cologne.
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In addition to the Federal Foreign Office, the respective political levels responsible for the museums should also be present, as well as the federal-state working group on dealing with collections from colonial contexts and the Secretary General of the cultural foundation of the federal states as the head of the contact point for collections from colonial contexts in Germany.
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