Germany displays Benin Bronzes despite call for their return

new museum, the Humboldt Forum, is opening in a reconstructed royal palace in the centre of Berlin on Wednesday – although the official opening is for now being held online because of the coronavirus pandemic.

But it is controversial.

The museum will house art from all over the world – including some of the Benin Bronzes, sculptures stolen from Nigeria at the end of the 19th Century.

The Humboldt Forum, which dominates the centre of Berlin, is supposed to showcase global culture, and become a symbol of tolerance and diversity.

But the museum has found itself in the middle of a row about looted art and colonialism.