George Osborne’s comments were made on Thief at the British Museum, which has been released both as a one-off television show and a radio series

The institution’s chair George Osborne has described the total number of items returned as a result that “few expected”, though more than 800 remain missing

The institution launches competition to find an architectural firm that can transform its Bloomsbury site

The case for and against the policy of free admission for UK museums, a tour of the British Museum's new Michelangelo show and an in-depth look at Maria Blanchard’s Girl at Her First Communion in Malaga

British Museum show focuses on the final three decades of the Italian master’s life

Low pay for museum workers, decreased local authority spending and a theft scandal have highlighted that "it’s time for some difficult choices," says the writer and broadcaster Ben Lewis

Lessons to be learnt after the British Museum misfired with a social media post branded as "sexist"

The Danish specialist Ittai Gradel, who first raised alarm about thefts of antiquities from the London museum, and earlier returned 61 gems bought separately on eBay, approached the Thorvaldsens Museum to help in repatriating a second, larger set of stolen pieces

Art detective Christopher Marinello believes more action is needed after an investigation by the Independent newspaper revealed thefts at the Imperial War Museum, Natural History Museum and others

The museum's former acting head of the Greece and Rome department, Peter Higgs, is facing legal action after being accused of stealing up to 2,000 objects

Cullinan, currently the director of the National Portrait Gallery, faces an array of challenges in rebuilding the oldest national museum in the world’s reputation

In 2023, many of the world’s major museums equaled—or surpassed—their 2019 attendance figures. However, some UK institutions are still lagging behind, finds The Art Newspaper’s annual survey

Exhibition to include huge ‘cartoon’ work and Royal Collection loans

A scion of the famous banking dynasty, he led the National Gallery, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Waddesdon Manor

Emergency repairs are being made to several galleries, just over a year after Assyrian reliefs were threatened by serious condensation

The museum switched off comments on one of its Instagram posts after it was flooded with calls for the restitution of the moai objects

Disagreement centred over whether the painting, looted in 1868 and later sold to a private collector in Portugal, should be bought by the government and returned to Ethopia

Mark Jones also says BP deal is the ‘right one’ and announces recovered items show

The 32 items held in the collections of the two UK museums were taken during wars in the 19th century

From gold coins to ivory carvings, many pieces were found by amateur metal detectorists, according to latest report by British Museum’s Portable Antiquities Scheme

Successful candidate will have their work cut out for them to restore the institution's reputation after last year's theft scandal

'Ancient Sculptures', put together by the British Museum, the Getty, Berlin State Museums and Mumbai’s CSMVS, is rated "one of most important ever in an Indian museum"

Many of the British Museum thefts of engraved gems and glass pieces, revealed last August, were likely from Charles Townley’s collection

There are some very spurious arguments coming from those resisting the return of the marbles to Greece

Minutes from trustee meetings dating back to spring of 2023 chronicle the internal agonising before the energy giant’s sponsorship was ultimately accepted

The controversial ten-year agreement with the oil and gas company will contribute towards the institution's ambitious refurbishment plans

From the British Museum thefts to the consequences in art and heritage of the Israel-Hamas war

The Independent Collection Security Review urges the museum to take urgent action, including fully recording the collection and tough management changes

The annual Christmas cracker joke competition by the British TV channel Gold took a swipe at the theft scandal that rocked the institution

From the theft of artefacts at the British Museum to a hammer attack on Velázquez’s “The Rokeby Venus”