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More than 70 objects from the British Museum will go on show in an Ice Age exhibition due to launch later this year in Bradford as part of the 2025 UK City of Culture celebrations. The exhibition ...
Lina Ghotmeh Architecture leads the British Museum's Western Range redesign, merging history and sustainability in a global cultural milestone.
The British Museum had to close some of its doors to visitors Friday, after a former employee allegedly succeeded in shutting down elements of its IT system. The BBC reports that the museum’s ...
In “Hew Locke, what have we here?”, visitors are asked to consider the legacy of empire and plunder in shaping museum collections.
Discover the British Museum's architectural competition, featuring top firms reimagining its Western Range Galleries for sustainability.
The Bronze Age axe-heads appear to have been packaged using a flapjack box Two axe-heads, which are believed to be more than 4,000 years old, have been sent to the National Museum of Ireland by an ...
The British Museum, one of the world's biggest, says around 1,500 items were stolen or went missing. The FBI is now helping investigate, per the BBC.
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.
There were over 1,300 treasure finds made by the public in 2022, and most of the items were discovered by people metal-detecting, the museum said.