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British Museum positions itself as a European expert on Korean art with major conservation project
It is the first Western institution to launch a long-term project to study and conserve pictorial art from the country
From Cleopatra to Banksy: satirist Ian Hislop to co-organise British Museum show on subversion
Private Eye editor will select 100 objects highlighting dissent down the ages
Scotland Yard joins global crackdown on looted pharaonic antiquities
The initiative, which involves governments and the art world, will set up a public database of objects
Three to see: London
Rodin takes on the Parthenon sculptures at the British Museum while James Cook sets sail for the British Library
Rodin’s debt to Parthenon sculptures explored in British Museum exhibition
Eighty marble, bronze and plaster works by French artist are put in dialogue with ancient Greek art
Ethiopia calls on British Museum to return Maqdala treasures on loan like the V&A
Ambassador made request at display opening in South Kensington
Then & Now: how The Art Newspaper shaped UK restitution law
Featuring a 900-year-old missal looted during the Second World War
How Britain tried—and failed—to borrow the Bayeux Tapestry twice before
One attempt was made in 1953 to mark the coronation of Elizabeth II and another for the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings in 1066
Bayeux Tapestry to be conserved in London?
The British Museum has the space and facilities to restore the embroidery, which is returning to England for first time in 940 years
British Museum would be 'honoured and delighted' to display Bayeux Tapestry after President Macron agrees loan
Historic embroidery to leave France for first time since the 11th century
British Museum to move storage to Reading
New research facility will provide new home for many of the two million artefacts currently at Blythe House
British Museum sends treasures to Mumbai for grand exhibition of Indian history
Encyclopaedic show was inspired by former director Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects
Three to see: London
From the British Museum's Lion Man to Matisse's studio studies at the Royal Academy
Prehistoric Lion Man points towards earliest notions of religion in new British Museum show
Earliest surviving figurative sculpture, carved from mammoth tusk, is among 160 objects in Living with Gods
British Museum ends loan deal with Abu Dhabi
Construction delays to the Zayed National Museum are behind the move
Looted Benin bronzes to be lent back to Nigeria
Pledge by European museums to set up “permanent display” of rotating loans in Benin City could pave way for restitution
From Siberia with love
The mysterious Scythians—tattoos and all—are brought to life in show at the British Museum
Rodin’s love of the Parthenon sculptures revealed
The British Museum show will examine the French artist’s obsession with its most famous exhibits
Elusive Scythians brought to life through show of archaeological discoveries
British Museum exhibition organised with Hermitage traces history of a culture with no written records
Hokusai’s late style comes into view at the British Museum
Looking beyond his iconic Great Wave at treasures from the museum's collection and from around the globe
The rise and fall of the American dream: Printmaking in America on show at the British Museum
200 works are now on show which explore hot topics from the 1960s onward, from Vietnam to the AIDs crisis
The Rothschild collection that got away
The British Museum reopens the Waddesdon Bequest Wunderkammer, funded by Lord Rothschild
Greek government review legal options and submit Unesco request for settlement in ramping up of Parthenon reacquisition campaign
The Art Newspaper sheds light on the dispute, though the end is not yet in sight
The British Museum’s battle on the home front during the First World War
The museum’s archive reveals how air raids threatened the collection and George V intervened to stop the building being requisitioned
British Museum expert says griffin returned to Iran is fake
Scepticism grows about confiscated silver vessel handed over by the US as an act of diplomacy
Restitution begins at home: an insider's analysis of the issue of restitution
The return of objects is not just an international issue—domestic claims can also offer insights.
Tate Modern loses top museum slot by a hair
The gallery was beaten to the post by the British Museum
Road map agreed to return Benin bronzes—on loan
Leading institutions absent from meeting in Nigeria to foster international co-operation
Raphael’s prep work on show at the Städel Museum
11 of the museum's works will be exhibited alongside 40 others loaned from around the world
Discovery of a prehistoric sculpture in Saudi Arabia could mean horses tamed in 7000BC
It’s a Late Stone Age horse, of course?