The British Museum could face legal action unless it abandons “covert and ideological” negotiations with Greece over the Elgin Marbles, The Telegraph can reveal. Liz Truss, the former prime ...

Over 200 historians and artists including William Dalrymple, Paloma Faith and Juliet Stevenson have denounced the British Museum’s decision to host an event for the Israeli embassy in May, and ...

Home to some of the world’s most extraordinary artifacts, from the Rosetta Stone to the Elgin Marbles, the British Museum is one of London’s most popular attractions.

An IT incident that disrupted visitor access to the British Museum last week was the work of a disgruntled contractor who had been let go.

In “Hew Locke, what have we here?”, visitors are asked to consider the legacy of empire and plunder in shaping museum collections.

The 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics constitute the largest donation in the British Museum’s nearly 300-year history.

For more than 150 years, the British Museum has kept 11 sacred Ethiopian tabots, or replicas of the Ark of the Covenant, quietly to itself.

The British Museum has been accused of withholding information about internal discussions relating to 11 contested Ethiopian tabots.

A London court on Tuesday ordered a former curator at the British Museum accused of stealing hundreds of artefacts to provide the museum with a list of all items he is suspected of taking and to ...

The British Museum is celebrating recovered items in its new exhibition, but it continues to refuse to return historically looted items in its own collection to countries of origin.