Digital BeninUnites all known objects, historical photographs and documentation from collections worldwide to provide a long-requested overview of the royal artefacts from the Benin Kingdom looted in the late nineteenth century. Digital Benin links documentation, oral histories, object research, and the historical context to an Edo language catalogue with provenance names, a map of the Benin Kingdom and museum collections worldwide. Digital Benin documents 5,246 objects in 131 institutions in 20 countries. For auction catalogs documenting the sale of these objects see "The Digital Benin Project - Auction Catalogs" elsewhere on this page.
These historic objects express the arts, culture and history of Benin, and were originally used as royal representational arts, to depict historical events, to communicate, to worship and perform rituals.