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From Tony Osauzo, Benin
The famous Humboldt Forum, a museum of art and culture will play host to arts collectors, enthusiasts, and researchers across the globe at the second opening of Humboldt forum in Berlin, Germany.
The museum which houses non-European collections including thousands of artefacts looted from the palace of Benin Kingdom during the 1897 invasion, will display its collections at the celebration and commissioning of the last part of opening of Humboldt Forum.
It was learnt that the Benin monarch’s representatives are to be led by his brother, Prince Aghatise Erediauwa.
An invitation letter made available to newsmen in Benin on the event and jointly signed by Prof. Dr Hartmut Dorgerloh, General Director Humboldt and Prof. Dr. Lars-Christian Koch, Director Ethnological Museum, the event expected to take place on the 16th September 2022, will also host friends, partners and colleagues.
Recall that a delegation of German ethnological museum led by Prof Christian Koch, had in April 2022, interacted with the Oba of Benin on planned return and restitution of historic Benin artefacts.
Mr Solomon Okuduwa who provided technical support during the visit of the delegation to Edo State, had led the German ethnologists to the historic Igun street where they also met with the association of Bronzes casters.
The Forum, located in the heart of Berlin, is a hub of exhibitions which attract researchers and arts lovers and aims to be the cultural destination compared with the London museum.
The museum had announced plans to pursue conversations with Nigerian officials regarding the repatriation of the Benin Bronzes in its collections and pledged to repatriate Benin Bronzes in its collections.
