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Berlin (dpa) - Museum experts and politicians today want to advise on how to deal with the Benin bronzes in German holdings, which are considered looted goods.
Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters has invited to a digital panel discussion.
The aim is to find a common position on the Nigerian side in Germany.
With a timetable, Baden-Württemberg wants to speed up the discussion about returns.
Without an agreement, Art Minister Theresia Bauer (Greens) also plans to go it alone for restitutions in the roadmap.
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.
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According to the information, the management of the German museums of the Benin Dialogue Group with the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin), the Linden-Museum Stuttgart, the Museum am Rothenbaum Hamburg, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden / Staatliche Ethnographic Collections Sachsen and the Rautenstrauch- Joest Museum Cologne.
In addition to the 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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