Once many objects came to the museum through conflict and colonial exploitation, but today they arrive by donations, bequests, purchases and commissions

The jugs include the British Museum’s Asante Ewer, which was made in England but ended up in West Africa, before being looted by the British

The architect of the remodelling of the British Museum’s Western Range is reimagining the London institution as “a place of connections”

The protestor took to the stage in the midst of a speech by the museum's chair of trustees, George Osborne

An ongoing initiative aims to inspire youngsters around England

The tapestry will be lent to the museum from September 2026 to July 2027, returning to England for the first time in nearly a thousand years

The Tudor Heart, discovered by a metal detectorist in 2019, is the only object of its kind surviving from the British monarch’s reign

The survey brings together more than 150 works by 100 different artists for a peek behind the clichés of apparently idyllic Nordic life

Behind its ordered, Neo-Classical façade, the London institution has been home to plenty of intrigue and eccentricity

The inaugural British Museum Ball will raise funds for the institution’s overseas collaborations, the BM’s director says, while emphasising the importance of the historic collection’s global reach

Nicholas Cullinan says that French and UK experts will guide every stage of the loan

The appeal references alleged warnings from textile restorers that a move could risk damaging the 1,000-year-old work’s embroidered linen fabric

The castle in the east of England now also hosts the largest display of the British Museum’s medieval collection outside of London

An unusual chance to see Vincent’s own copy of a print which inspired one of his most intriguing paintings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Art Newspaper's pick of the top shows to see around the world this month

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

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

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

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

Appointments have been made at the British Museum, Tate and Victoria and Albert Museum

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

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