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Smithsonian

The Smithsonian Institution is a group of museums and research centres in the United States, based in Washington, D.C. Its collections have included Benin Bronzes looted by British forces in 1897. Accounts of the Benin Empire list it among the institutions involved in the debate over the restitution of these objects.

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