this man spent 15 years mastering his craft. i've been into bronze casting from childhood. i was taught by my father, which my father was taught by the forefathers. and it has been a family business, family work. so we've grown into it, as a living. he's part of an exclusive guild of bronze casters which has 120 members that mostly work on this street... ..all practising a centuries old technique where wax models are used to create a detailed mould for the bronze to be cast in. it takes up to two weeks to make a piece, and it did take up to a month, depending on the size

of the job or the artwork. whenever tourists come to nigeria, they want to visit this place, through the buyer and the commission works. whilst the technique has remained the same, most are working off printed images with little access to their ancestors�* original works. we have few ones that is still left, which is in ourfamily house this year, and we still have them in catalogues. yes, there are a few, not much. we don't have much access to it because much of them is stolen. ifeel bad and i'm not too happy because this is our treasure. it's what our forefathers laboured to do. it's reckoned around 10,000 pieces were looted

by the british when they sacked benin in 1897, burning down the city's palace in the process. the bronzes were then sold to institutions around the world. now there's no law in the uk which forces museums or other places to return stolen artefacts, but some institutions are doing it independently, likejesus college, cambridge. they were the first institution in the world to return a benin bronze in 2021. more recently, germany handed back 22 bronzes and agreed to release over 1,000 items from their collections. the horniman in london has also sent pieces back to nigeria, and soon cambridge university's museum of archaeology and anthropology will follow suit.

we've identified 116 objects that were taken during the punitive expedition of 1897, and those are the objects that we will be transferring ownership of. i think it's impossible to overstate just how severe an act of vandalism and cultural violence this was. the heads that we see before us here were several of the objects that graced ancestral altars throughout the palace and the purpose of those altars was very much to maintain the lineage, to maintain the kingdom. the plaques that were being removed from the walls throughout the city were visualisations of the benin kingdom's history and heritage, and those were all taken away in a wholesale export of this material, leaving very, very little behind. tell me, why are you now and only now returning some of the pieces? i think it's the right time for these collections to go back.

one might say it's long overdue. i think the main reason, the most recent reason is that there has been a request from the nigerian government, and i think fundamentally for us it's the right thing to do. these were stolen and these were looted. there are many, many different ways in which objects came to museums like this. there's such an awareness both within the uk and internationally of museums, colonial legacies, but also of the cultural heritage that is represented in museum collections. and we want the future retelling and care of these collections to be something that's really, really collaborative. now, this is not a sentiment shared by all. currently, the british museum in london has more than 900 items from the historic kingdom of benin, the largest collection of bronzes in the world, with no current plans to return any. the british museum sent the travel show a statement where they say

that the collections offer an important opportunity for audiences to understand the history of the british conquest of benin city and to reflect on the impact of that period of colonialism. they're in dialogue with the nigerian government about this, but also cite the british museum act of 1963 that it's their founding responsibility to care for the collection on behalf of the world. notjust the bronzes, but all the objects kept here. now, undoubtedly, that's not something that sits too well back in nigeria. the national museum in benin has the most accessible collection of bronzes for tourists to see, though a fraction of what it perhaps should be. the time is coming for the british, for london in particular, when they see neighbouring countries

around them bringing the objects, they will not have any other choice than to release what belongs to us. because the whole world knows they are stolen properties. there is no place like home. by the time this object comes home, it's going to do a lot of things. it will heal the wounds. it will create more jobs for our people. tourists to visit our museums. and on that note, plans are under way to build a brand new museum to house their returning heritage. the edo museum of west african arts is scheduled to open in 2026 and they're optimistic it'll be filled with their missing bronzes. fingers crossed the museum project goes smoothly. but if you can't wait that long, here are some alternatives from around the world that

you could consider. starting in asia, the national museum of cambodia in phnom penh is filled with reclaimed stolen statues. a lot of the items here were looted from temples across the country, including from the famous angkor wat. the team is constantly working on tracing and bringing back their antiquities from museums and private collectors around the world. over in canada, the winnipeg art gallery has recently opened a centre showcasing the world's largest collection of inuit art. it's called qaumajuq, which means, "it is bright, "it is lit," with the building very much inspired by being in the arctic landscape. more than 27,000 artworks are on display, including a large portion which is on loan from the northern communities. travelling south into the us, why not check out the first

american national museum designed and run by indigenous peoples? it's part of the smithsonian institution group, this one based in washington. the building is made out of materials closely connected to the native communities across the continent. inside, you'll find more than 800,000 objects, along with regular workshops and talks. over to morocco next, where you may remember we sent adi to the newly opened modern african art museum in marrakesh. there, you'll find lots of artworks from around the country. its whole thing is about making art accessible, and the first sunday of every month, you pay whatever you want or can afford to enter. finally, to papua new guinea, where its national museum in port moresby, has the task of protecting and preserving the country's cultural, military, and natural heritage. some locals see it as a spiritual

home due to its heritage inside. alongside its archaeological objects, it also has natural history specimens and contemporary local artworks. well, that's it for this time. but don't forget, you can watch loads more content and the longer version of this show on the bbc iplayer. but until next week from me, rajan datar, and the rest of the travel show team here in cambridge, it's goodbye. hello again. i'm sure you noticed the big change in weather pattern we had over the course of the weekend. saturday the uk was underneath this area of cloud, not much sunshine around at all, whereas on sunday we had much sunnier weather, particularly across england, wales, northern ireland and at times parts of scotland as well.

now with those sunnier conditions came quite a drop in temperatures. take kinloss in northern scotland here on saturday we had temperatures up to 12, but sunday it's about four degrees cooler. now high pressure is dominating the weather picture. that's what's actually brought the sunny weather during sunday. and that high pressure is still with us as we head into monday as well. now with that comes a sharp frost across england and wales, widespread with temperatures in the countryside, i suspect getting down as low as minus five or so. there'll be some patchy frost as well for eastern scotland where the skies stay clear too. but in the northwest, a lot of cloud and it could even bring a few patches of drizzle first thing monday morning, although i would imagine most of that will clear off as we head into the afternoon with some bright weather pushing in here as well. still, the best of the sunshine will be further southwards across england and wales, the highest temperatures where we have that cloudy weather moving into the northwest. now looking at the weather charts through monday night, you can see across england and wales, initially

the skies will be clear, but i think later on in the night this is night where we are likely to see quite widespread and dense patches of fog forming across parts of southern england, southern wales, the midlands and east anglia. now with that it's freezing fog, so it's probably going to hang around quite a bit into tuesday, perhaps well into the afternoon. and given that, there'll be some areas that stay quite grey and quite cold. further north, we've got a very weak weather front. this type of cloud pushing southwards through the day could bring an odd spot of drizzle across parts of southern scotland, northern ireland and into northern england through the course of the afternoon. but i think still the emphasis will be on a lot of dry weather. now we'll see further change in the weather patterns into wednesday. we start to get more of a south—westerly wind. so perhaps the mist and fog not as extensive. and those winds have a better chance of blowing a few holes in the cloud temperatures ranging from around nine or ten for scotland and northern ireland, where it continues to be mild. england, wales, those temperatures, 6 to 8, are closer to what we'd expect at this time of the year. now for thursday, we've got

another change on the way. another change on the way as this cold front pushes its way southwards. it's going to be quite a weak front, so not a lot of rain left on it by the time it reaches southern england. wales, but it will be introducing some cooler airjust for a time. now across northern scotland on thursday. we're looking at plenty of showers and some of these will be falling wintry. so a little bit of sleet mixed in. for example, in lerwick there will be some snow in the scottish mountains, but you have to go up pretty high in the mountains to catch that. otherwise it's rain and a bit of hail that you might come across. you see the temperatures around 8 to 9 degrees celsius widely now now heading into friday. south—westerly winds return and they'll be dragging in some milder air. so temperatures in lerwick thursday about five degrees celsius, but those temperatures will come up through friday. we'll see rain at times across northern scotland but eight degrees in lerwick come the afternoon, ten degrees for stornoway. further southwards, temperatures across england, wales range between seven and ten. now next weekend is looking dry as well. high pressure that we have

still holding on to the south of the uk should mean that we'll have largely dry weather across england and wales with more sunshine. always likely to be a bit more cloud though across northern parts of the uk. bye bye.

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