FBI Probes Sale of Suspected British Museum Artefacts to U.S. Buyers
The FBI is investigating the sale of hundreds of suspected stolen treasures from the British Museum to buyers in the United States.
27 May 2024
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British Museum Recovers A Further 268 Stolen Objects From Collection
The British Museum has made public the investigation and return of 268 objects that were either misplaced or pilfered from its collection.
20 May 2024
Dr Nicholas Cullinan Appointed New Director of Troubled British Museum
Dr Nicholas Cullinan OBE has been appointed as the new Director of the British Museum. He will inherit a position marred by staff sackings…
28 March 2024
British Museum Initiates Legal Proceedings Against Curator Peter Higgs Over Thefts
The British Museum, through its trustees, has initiated legal proceedings in the High Court of Justice King’s Bench Division against Peter Higgs…
27 March 2024
British Museums Attendance Figures Down While International Galleries Return To Pre-Pandemic Levels
The latest government report on museum attendance in the UK has revealed a concerning trend of declining numbers despite the end of pandemic restrictions.
17 March 2024
British Museum To Display Stolen Items Recovered from Collection
Approximately 2000 missing, stolen, or damaged objects from the British Museum’s collection, predominantly classical gems and gold jewellery
2 February 2024
British Museum Greenwashing: New BP Partnership To Help Fund £1 Billion Redesign
The latest British Museum “Masterplan” has been disclosed amid accusations of greenwashing by environmental groups.
19 December 2023
British Museum Theft: Accountability Crisis Amidst Inside Job Allegations
The British Museum is grappling with an internal crisis due to the loss and damage of approximately 2,000 artefacts, including valuable Roman gems.
13 December 2023
George Osborne Acknowledges Decades Long Inside Job at British Museum
In a shocking revelation, the British Museum, a bastion of cultural heritage, admitted it had fallen prey to a massive “inside job…
18 October 2023
British Museum Launches Website To Recover Internally Stolen Artefacts
Last August, 1,200 to 2,000 valuable objects were reported “missing, stolen or damaged” by officials at the British Museum.
26 September 2023
Shambolic British Museum: Mark Jones named Interim Director
Mark Jones has been named interim director of the British Museum. He will replace Hartwig Fischer who stepped down last week.
3 September 2023
Hartwig Fischer British Museum Director Quits Over Theft Scandal
Hartwig Fischer, the director of the British Museum, has resigned with immediate effect.
26 August 2023
British Museum Thefts: Parthenon Marbles Must Now Be Returned To Greece
Over the last few days, a new dialogue has opened up in light of the theft of 1200 to 2000 objects by a senior Curator at the British Museum.
22 August 2023
British Museum: Theft Thought To Be An Inside Job By Senior Curator
The British Museum has sacked a senior curator who worked at the British Museum for more than 30 years after priceless jewellery and gems vanished from a locked storage cupboard.
16 August 2023
British Museum Ends Sponsorship Arrangement With Fossil Fuel Giant BP
BP’s sponsorship of the British Museum is to end following years of protest.
2 June 2023
More Restitution Problems For Picasso, Van Gogh And British Museum Antiquities
Restitution is proving to be a complex and challenging problem for many museums and private collections. This week alone, several cases have been filed. Reputations that were once beyond question have now been brought into question.
25 January 2023
British Museum Close To Parthenon Marbles Deal – Ukraine Banksy Theft Ringleader Faces Imprisonment – Arata Isozaki Japanese Architect Dies Aged 91
British Museum Close To Parthenon Marbles Deal – Ukraine Banksy Theft Ringleader Faces Imprisonment – Arata Isozaki Japanese Architect Dies Aged 91
5 January 2023
Banksy Pledges Mural To Save Reading Gaol From Developers – Largest Vermeer Retrospective Announced By Rijksmuseum – Monumental Stonehenge Exhibition For British Museum
Banksy Pledges Mural To Save Reading Gaol From Developers – Largest Vermeer Retrospective Announced By Rijksmuseum – Monumental Stonehenge Exhibition For British Museum
7 December 2021
Lubaina Himid Unveils GAC Commission – Tate’s Turbine Hall Commission Dates Announced – British Museum Launches NFT Partnership Platform
The Turner Prize-winning artist Lubaina Himid CBE has been awarded the Robson Orr TenTen Award 2021 by the Government Art Collection (GAC).
27 September 2021
Stolen Picasso and Mondrian Paintings Recovered – George Osborne Appointed Chair British Museum – Phyllida Barlow To Unveil New Work At Highgate Cemetery
Stolen Picasso and Mondrian Paintings Recovered – George Osborne Appointed Chair British Museum – Phyllida Barlow Highgate Cemetery Sculpture
29 June 2021
British Museum Spotlight Loan Crossings: Community And Refuge – Revd Jonathan Evens
The Lampedusa cross is made from pieces of a boat that was wrecked on 11 October 2013 near the Italian island of Lampedusa, close to the coast of Tunisia.
10 May 2021
Notorious Roman Emperor Nero Explored In New British Museum Show
The British Museum is to mount the first major UK exhibition on Nero, one of the most notorious ancient Roman emperors.
22 April 2021
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Jasper Johns Flag Print Valued At $1m Donated To The British Museum
A print by the American Pop artist Jasper Johns depicting an American flag has been donated to the British Museum. Jasper Johns’s Flags I (1973) was gifted to London’s most popular Museum by the New York-based collectors Johanna and Leslie Garfield.
1 November 2020
Sir Hans Sloane British Museum Founder Relegated To History
The founder of the British Museum Sir Hans Sloane has had his bust removed from a prominent position in the gallery due to his connection to the slave trade. The statue, currently in a cupboard, will now make up part of a display which acknowledges colonial oppression.
25 August 2020
Grayson Perry Unveils New Unknown Craftsman Tomb At British Museum
Grayson Perry the Turner Prize-winning transvestite artist has unveiled the installation of a previously unseen edition of his work The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman at the British Museum.
20 August 2020
British Museum Puts Four Million Objects Online
The British Museum today launches a major revamp of its online collection database, allowing over 4 million objects to be seen by people anywhere in the world.
28 April 2020
Edmund de Waal Books Thousands of Books British Museum – Marina Vaizey
Books written in exile by the exiled. It is this phenomenon, the triumph of the human spirit in dire circumstances, that is the focus of a gesamtkunstwerk, a complete work of art, by Edmund de Waal which may be viewed at the British Museum when it reopens
26 March 2020
British Museum Acquires Dante Gabriel Rossetti Painting Belonging To William Morris
The British Museum has acquired an important painting by the English painter, poet and Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founder, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882).
3 September 2019
Manga: Masterpieces Of Narrative Art – British Museum – Edward Lucie-Smith
It is bold of the British Museum to embark on an exhibition of Japanese Manga in their most significant and grandest temporary exhibition space – the one right at the back of the building, on the ground floor.
26 May 2019
Edmund de Waal Venice Installation Confirmed For British Museum
Edmund de Waal is to exhibit his profoundly beautiful Venice Biennale collateral work, ‘Psalm’, Library of Exile, at the British Museum in London in 2020. The work will also be presented at the Japanisches Palais in Dresden from November 2019 to February 2020.
21 May 2019
Banksy Princess Diana Tenner Acquired By British Museum
The British Museum has added a Banksy to its permanent collection. This is the first time one of his works has been acquired by a major London Museum. It is quite surprising that Tate Britain has overlooked this important artist.
1 February 2019