On Oct. 13, 2022, CNN reported on a ceremony in Washington D.C., between some of the most prominent U.S. museums and Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments to return 31 Benin bronzes to their homeland of Nigeria. The National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum co-hosted the ceremony to celebrate this momentous occasion of repatriation. Many African artists and museums have expressed hope that this will influence a continuous return of stolen objects from Western nations, according to CNN.