New Online Database Tracks the Whereabouts of the Benin Bronzes

A new online database catalogs objects looted in the Benin Expedition of 1897 and now housed in disparate collections around the world. Named Digital Benin, it is the first exhaustive attempt to document all Benin bronzes in a centralized and accessible repository.

The database was built by a collaboration of researchers, museum directors, and scholars from the Museum am Rothenbaum–World Cultures and Arts (MARKK) in Hamburg, the Sorbonne University in Paris, and the Weltmuseum Wien in Vienna.