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.

British Museum Receives £1 Billion Donation of Rare Chinese Ceramics: The 1,700 piece collection marks the highest-value object gift in UK museum history.

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

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

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.

Topline The British Museum and London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) announced on Thursday that 32 gold and silver artifacts from Ghana, which were looted during the Anglo-Ashanti Wars in ...

Parts of some missing objects have probably been sold to scrap metal merchants, museum administrators say.

The British Museum has lent for the first time in 250 years an ancient Greek water vase, the Meidias hydria, to the Acropolis Museum in Athens for an exhibition which begins this week and runs ...