Image caption, Ivory carvers usually worked for the Oba ... At the moment, many museums still hold hundreds of pieces of Benin art. These artefacts are important to the people of modern-day ...

Others were made of figurines, tusks, sculptures of Benin’s rulers, and an ivory mask, formed between ... to open the Edo Museum of West African Art in Benin City designed by British-Ghanaian ...

The objects, known as the Benin Bronzes and including reliefs, statues and ivory artefacts, are now scattered around the world. Some are at the British Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of ...

They include figurines, tusks, sculptures of Benin's rulers, and an ivory mask. They were made during ... to open the Edo Museum of West African Art in Benin City in 2026, designed by the British ...