British Museum

Former UK prime minister Liz Truss signs letter criticising ‘secretive’ campaign to return Parthenon Marbles to Greece

A letter issued by the right-wing campaign group Great British Pac claims there is a “politically orchestrated” movement to remove the sculptures

Ancient art on wheels: how Mumbai's leading museum is sending miniature exhibitions by bus into the Indian countryside

CSMVS's mobile museum venture, created in collaboration with an exhibition it curated with the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Berlin State Museums and the British Museum, examines the underlying connections between ancient civilisations

France resisted loan of Bayeux Tapestry for ‘decades’, Macron says during British Museum visit

The French president made the comments yesterday at a ceremony attended by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer

Ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship to be debated by UK parliament

Campaigners behind a petition that has garnered more than 100,000 signatures are seeking to end the kind of deals struck by the British Museum and Science Museum

Comment | Why it’s wrong to shame those protesting against fossil fuel funding

Protestors are taking high personal risks with the aim of affecting policy and corporate responsibility to make clear the scale of the looming climate catastrophe

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A Siri-ous app-ointment: iPhone designer joins British Museum board of trustees

Apple supremo Jony Ive joins Claudia Winkleman and Martha Kearney on the museum's board

UK national museums back call for end to ‘relentless negativity’ around corporate arts sponsorship

The British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and The National Gallery have signed a public letter authored by the co-chief executives of Sadler’s Wells

British Museum faces internal criticism over private Israel independence day event

Current and former employees have expressed shock that the museum hosted the event—which marks a day associated with the mass displacement of Palestinians—during one of the most violent weeks of the Israel-Hamas conflict

In a new exhibition, the British Museum traces the shared roots of three ancient Indian religions

Devotional art reveals how Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism have more in common than is widely believed

When—and why—did Van Gogh paint a pair of crabs?

Vincent’s audacious still-life was the first painting bought by a British collector, only three years after his death

British Museum to loan ‘some of the rarest surviving examples’ of Ice Age art to UK's City of Culture

The objects, including what the museum describes as England's oldest known figurative art work, will head to Bradford for a major exhibition opening this summer

‘Exceptional’ Iron Age hoard could help to better understand Britain's history

One of the largest and most significant from the period, the hoard was discovered at a site in Yorkshire

Revealed: British Museum’s visitor figures hit ten-year high

While other UK institutions continue to struggle, the British Museum received 6.5 million visitors in 2024, The Art Newspaper's annual visitor figures survey has revealed

Tourist admission fees at UK national museums would be ‘ideologically at odds’ with global collections, says new report

The report also describes the idea of charging international visitors as “logistically complex”

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British Museum attacked by eldritch horrors... in new video game

The challenges of managing the British Museum reach new highs in ‘Tides of Annihilation’

British Museum ‘running as normal’ after alleged IT attack by former employee

Both permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions were closed at the weekend following the suspected sabotage

Investigation shines fresh light on British Museum’s looted, Dürer-inspired diptych

The piece, one side of which is an enamel copy of a 16th-century woodcut, the other side crafted in Ethiopia, reveals how European icons became incorporated into the African country’s traditions

London-based Studio Weave wins competition to revamp British Museum entrance

New welcome pavilions and a landscaped forecourt are scheduled for completion early 2026

Episode 300! British Museum, Tate Modern and V&A East directors in discussion

A special roundtable conversation touching on some of the biggest issues facing museums: from the need to address colonial histories to sponsorship and AI

Sponsorship, sustainability and security: what’s the future for UK museums?

The directors of the British Museum, V&A East and Tate Modern talked activism, funding, empire and more in a wide-ranging discussion on The Art Newspaper’s Week in Art podcast

British Museum receives ‘highest value object donation in UK museum history’

A private collection of 1,700 ceramic items was given by the Sir Percival David Foundation

British Museum still taking money from tobacco firm

Japanese acquisitions have been funded by maker of Benson & Hedges, Winston, Camel and Silk Cut

Just Stop Oil protestors place high-vis jacket on ancient Greek statue at the British Museum

The campaign group dressed up a sculpture of the goddess Demeter and added a speech bubble beside it reading “just stop famine”

Painting protests cause 'enormous stress for colleagues at every level', say UK's national museum directors

An open letter from the National Museum Directors' Council says "demonstrations now need to be taken away from our museums and galleries"

Ten years on from the genocide, Yazidi culture is still absent from Western museums

Institutions have a moral duty to better represent the persecuted Kurdish religious minority

Repatriation of objects is on the government’s agenda, says UK culture secretary

Lisa Nandy's apparent support for repatriation reform has been welcomed by the head of London's Victoria and Albert Museum

‘Will it cause reputational damage?’: British Museum director discusses controversial BP donation

In a recent interview with The Sunday Times, Nicholas Cullinan also mulls over the Parthenon Marbles and recent thefts scandal