The Horniman Museum also traces its roots to the Age of Empire. The museum opened in 1890, when tea merchant Frederick Horniman opened his collection of artifacts from around the world for public ...

The Horniman Museum in Forest Hill is one of three London museums in the running for a national award recognising it as one ...

The Horniman Museum: A Handbook to the Collections illustrating a Survey of the Animal Kingdom. H. N. Milligan. By Second edition. Pp. 66. (London County Council, 1922.) 6d.

The Horniman Museum and Gardens in southeast London has restituted its collection of Benin bronzes to Nigeria, becoming the first public U.K. institution of note to do so. At a ceremony held ...

The collection will include more context about how Mr. Horniman came to own the walrus. The museum’s website notes that Mr. Horniman’s wealth was “reliant on the exploitation of people ...

Some have also criticized the museum for its collection of human remains. Brass sculpture depicting a cockerel, object no. 99.239. Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic.

Horniman Museum’s collection is a fraction of the thousands of items pillaged from the Kingdom of Benin by British soldiers in the late-19th century. Skip to Main Content.

The Horniman Museum also traces its roots to the Age of Empire. The museum opened in 1890, when tea merchant Frederick Horniman opened his collection of artifacts from around the world for public ...

London's Horniman Museum and Gardens announced Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022 that it had agreed to return a collection of Benin Bronzes looted in the late 19th century from what is now Nigeria. (Horniman ...

London's Horniman Museum said on Sunday it would return 72 artefacts, including 12 brass plaques known as Benin Bronzes, looted from Benin City by British soldiers in 1897 to the Nigerian government.

London's Horniman Museum and Gardens announced Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022 that it had agreed to return a collection of Benin Bronzes looted in the late 19th century from what is now Nigeria. (Horniman ...