Hermann Parzinger, Benin Bronzes, Humboldt Forum
Hermann Parzinger, President der Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, in front of artwork from the Kingdom of Benin Nigeria as part of the Benin Bronzes in the Collections from Africa section during a press preview ahead of the opening of new exhibition areas of the Ethnological Museum and Museum of Asian Art at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, Germany. The opening is controversial. Activists are calling for the German colonial history to be dealt with and for looted art to be returned. The art work will go on show for one last time before being repatriated to Nigeria. Germany's gradual reckoning with the colonial era and the injustices of the past
