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
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
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
What did life in the Roman army look like from a soldier’s perspective? What did their families make of life in the fort? How did the newly conquered react? Legion explores life in settled military communities from Scotland to the Red Sea through the people who lived it.
Daily: 10.00–17.00 (Fridays 20.30)
Approximately 2000 missing, stolen, or damaged objects from the British Museum’s collection, predominantly classical gems and gold jewellery
2 February 2024
The latest British Museum “Masterplan” has been disclosed amid accusations of greenwashing by environmental groups.
19 December 2023
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
Pressures between the British and Greek governments have escalated over the contentious issue of the Parthenon Sculptures, commonly known as the Elgin Marbles.
28 November 2023
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
Mark Jones has been named interim director of the British Museum. He will replace Hartwig Fischer who stepped down last week.
3 September 2023
BP’s sponsorship of the British Museum is to end following years of protest.
2 June 2023
Drawing on dazzling objects from Afghanistan to Greece, this exhibition moves beyond the ancient Greek spin to explore a more complex story about luxury.
Daily: 10.00–17.00 (Fridays 20.30)
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
5 January 2023
Marking 200 years since the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, this major exhibition takes you through the trials and hard work that preceded, and the revelations that followed, this ground-breaking moment.
10.00–17.00 (Fridays 20.30)
Following the 500th anniversary of the death of Raphael (1483–1520) in 2020, experience the Italian Renaissance master’s exquisite drawings and trace his influence through the work of his pupils.
Daily: 10.00–17.00
Discover some of the most compelling emerging talents in the field of contemporary drawing, displayed alongside highlights from the Museum’s collection dating back to the early 1500s.
Daily: 10.00–17.00
Informed by ground-breaking recent archaeological and scientific discoveries, this landmark exhibition offers new insight on one of the world’s great wonders, bringing the true story of Stonehenge into sharper focus than ever before.
Daily: 10.00–17.00 (Fridays 20.30)
Banksy Pledges Mural To Save Reading Gaol From Developers – Largest Vermeer Retrospective Announced By Rijksmuseum – Monumental Stonehenge Exhibition For British Museum
7 December 2021
Marking Peru’s bicentennial year of independence, this exhibition highlights the history, beliefs and cultural achievements of the different peoples who lived here from around 2500 BC to the arrival of Europeans in the 1500s, and their legacy in the centuries that followed.
Daily: 10.00–17.00 (Fridays 20.30)
Over 100 newly rediscovered drawings by Japanese artist, Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) will go on public display for the very first time at the British Museum.
Daily: 10.00–17.00 (Fridays 20.30)
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
Discover the murder that shook the Middle Ages in this dramatic exhibition about the life, death and legacy of Thomas Becket.
Daily 10.00–17.00 (20.30 Fridays)
Drawing on the latest research, this major exhibition questions the traditional narrative of the ruthless tyrant and eccentric performer, revealing a different Nero, a populist leader at a time of great change in Roman society.
Daily 10.00–17.00 (20.30 Fridays)
The British Museum is to mount the first major UK exhibition on Nero, one of the most notorious ancient Roman emperors.
22 April 2021
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
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
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
This handsome soft-cover catalogue published by Thames & Hudson for the British Museum was intended to commemorate an exhibition that hasn’t in fact taken place, due to the coronavirus.
9 April 2020
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
Closed until further notice
Created as a ‘space to sit and read and be’, library of exile is an installation by British artist and writer, Edmund de Waal, housing more than 2,000 books in translation, written by exiled authors.
Daily: 10.00–17.30 Fridays: 10.00–20.30
From a critic’s point of view, It is pretty difficult, to sum up, the year 2019. It was, for example, a year when greater and greater emphasis was placed on doing full justice to women artists.
18 December 2019
Charting the fascinating history of cultural and artistic interactions between East and West, this exhibition explores the impact the Islamic world has had on Western art for centuries.
Daily 10:00 - 17:30