As part of the Swiss Benin Forum from January 29th to February 3rd 2023, held between Zürich, Basel and Geneva, the MEG welcomed the Nigerian delegation.
From left to right: Several members of the Nigerian delegation: His Royal Highness Prince Aghatise Erediauwa, Prof. Kokunre Agbontaen-Eghafona, Theophilus Umogbai, Patrick Oronsaye interact with the Benin City pieces in MEG’s reference exhibition. His Royal Highness Prince Aghatise Erediauwa examines the royal tusk burnt during the Benin City fire in 1897 and kept at MEG since 1948. Nigerian artists Philip Omodamwen and Samson Ogiamien in the MEG conservation laboratory.
Photographs by Johnathan Watts
