The British Museum, the country’s most popular tourist attraction, was partially closed to the public on Saturday after an employee who had been fired broke in and shut down computer systems ...

A former British Museum contract worker has been arrested after allegedly shutting down its IT systems, the London-based institution said. Part of the museum's permanent collection was closed on ...

The British Museum has begun recovering some items that were taken from the prestigious institution and sold online, museum chair George Osborne said on Saturday. Osborne’s comments follow ...

The British Museum released its annual tally of archaeological items found by the public — and the newest list is record-setting, the museum said this week. Overall, 53,490 archaeological ...

Priceless British Museum artefacts which were stolen by a now sacked member of staff may already be long gone, an expert has claimed. Museum chiefs said the items had not been on public display ...

About 2,000 treasures are thought to have been stolen from the British Museum, but recovery has begun of some of them, chairman George Osborne has said. The ex-chancellor accepted the museum's ...

The British Museum curator sacked after 2,000 artefacts went missing has resurfaced – unlike the vanished treasures. Peter Higgs – a world-renowned expert on Ancient Greece and Rome – has ...

The British Museum is both an architectural beauty and a trove of some of the world's most noted antiquities. It's arguably the best museum in all of London. What's more, it's free to visit.

Parts of some missing objects have probably been sold to scrap metal merchants, museum administrators say. By Alex Marshall Reporting from London Four months after the British Museum fired a ...