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
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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
Luxury And Power: Persia to Greece
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)
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
Hieroglyphs unlocking ancient Egypt
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)
Raphael and his school drawing connections
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
Drawing attention: emerging British artists
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
The world of Stonehenge
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
Banksy Pledges Mural To Save Reading Gaol From Developers – Largest Vermeer Retrospective Announced By Rijksmuseum – Monumental Stonehenge Exhibition For British Museum
7 December 2021
Peru: a journey in time
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)
Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything
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)
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
Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint
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)
Nero: the man behind the myth
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)
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
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
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
Piranesi Drawings – Neoclassical Visions – Edward Lucie-Smith
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
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
Edmund de Waal: library of exile
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
Ten UK Exhibitions You Should Have Seen In 2019 – Edward Lucie-Smith
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
Inspired by the east: how the Islamic world influenced western art
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
Portrait of the artist Käthe Kollwitz
This show celebrates the humanity and enduring impact of one of the most influential 20th-century printmakers – Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945).
Daily 10:00 - 17:30
Troy: myth and reality
The legend of Troy has endured for more than 3,000 years. Explore the breath-taking art that brings the captivation characters to life, from dramatic ancient sculptures and exquisite vase paintings to powerful contemporary works.
daily 10.00–17.30
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
Edvard Munch: Ibsenian Imagery And Isolation – Edward Lucie-Smith
A new exhibition of work by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch now at the British Museum claims to be the biggest ever devoted to his work here in Britain.
11 April 2019
Tate Modern Tops Visitor Attraction List For First Time
The public has chosen Tate Modern over the British Museum for the first time since records began. The UK’s most popular visitor attractions’ list published yesterday has shown for the first time in a decade Tate Modern is the clear winner.
27 March 2019
Manga
Enter a graphic world where art and storytelling collide in the largest exhibition of manga ever to take place outside of Japan.
open daily 10.00–17.30 Fridays: open until 20.30