The Universal Museum’s Ruins

A Mounting Restitution Crisis is an Opportunity for Museums to Better Serve Global Communities

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image by Tomas Eidsvold on Unsplash

In February 1897 a punitive attack was launched by the British on the city of Benin, the capital of the West African empire of the same name. 1,400 soldiers took part in the operation equipped with the latest technology developed for bush fighting.