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    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Keir Starmer open to a deal on Elgin Marbles

      Labour leader and Sunak to separately discuss with Greek PM part of Parthenon sculptures being returned to Athens

      The Parthenon galleries at the British Museum, which hold the statues formerly known as the Elgin Marbles
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      British Museum to digitise records after theft of treasures

      Chair George Osborne says institution was ‘victim of inside job’ over decades

      The British Museum
    • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
      The Big Read
      The crisis at the British Museum

      The theft of 2,000 items risks undermining the institution’s founding purpose as a custodian of the world’s treasures

      View of two people from behind looking up at ancient Greek sculptures in the museum
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      Erica Wagner
      Scottish steps on the road to restitution

      The return of a sacred Nisga’a Nation artefact offers lessons for museums worldwide

    • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
      Osborne hopeful Elgin Marbles deal will go ahead despite museum thefts

      British Museum chair believes that talks with Greek premier over return of treasures have not been jeopardised

      Visitors view the Elgin Marbles
    • Saturday, 26 August, 2023
      Osborne promises full stock take of British Museum’s artefacts as thefts row escalates

      Institution’s chair says up to 2,000 items are missing after it failed to act on warnings

    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      British Museum director quits in wake of theft of artefacts

      Hartwig Fischer steps down admitting institution faces situation of the ‘utmost seriousness’

      Hartwig Fischer
    • Monday, 20 February, 2023
      Visual Arts
      Manchester Museum’s new South Asia Gallery focuses on personal stories

      Real people and their experiences are at the heart of the gallery, reopening as part of the museum’s £15mn transformation

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      FT Magazine
      Inside the secret meetings that could seal the fate of the Parthenon Marbles

      How George Osborne and Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis put together the outlines of a historic plan

      Marble statues of headless female figures
    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
      UK
      ‘Unique’ Tudor pendant unearthed by UK metal detecting enthusiast

      British Museum says object ‘of national importance’ is rare survivor from Henry VIII’s first marriage

      The Tudor pendant inscribed with the initials of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragón
    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      The Weekend Essay
      The Benin Bronzes and the road to restitution

      Why a digital record of the kingdom’s looted treasures marks a new era in the battle to reclaim its history

    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
      Collecting
      Works of a great collector, from jade and rare Chinese porcelain to Degas and Vuillard

      Spectacular collections in the London home of the late businessman and philanthropist Sir Joseph Hotung

      A silver-inlaid bronze corner piece with dragon figures
    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      Jan Dalley
      A high-stakes game of marbles

      The politics of restitution are often opaque — but not in the case of the Parthenon Marbles

      Macron is shown a display case of artefacts while camera crews film in the background
    • Friday, 4 February, 2022
      Osborne taps backers to raise £1bn for ‘radical’ renovation of British Museum

      Government and private funding sought for modernisation of 170-year-old cultural institution

      The British Museum in central London
    • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
      UK politics
      Return of ‘Elgin Marbles’ will strengthen UK’s global role, says Greek PM

      Mitsotakis insists the case for repatriation of antiquities is ‘very strong’ during a visit to London

    • Friday, 3 September, 2021
      Tefaf Online 2021
      Life support for masterpieces on the edge

      This year the Tefaf Museum Restoration Fund is helping a glass disaster in Beirut and an unusual Manet portrait in Wales

    • Thursday, 2 September, 2021
      Arts
      Hokusai at the British Museum — an enthralling trove of original drawings

      This captivating exhibition of 103 recently rediscovered pictures includes some of the Japanese artist’s most mysterious work

      A bolt of lightning striking king Virūdhaka dead
    • Tuesday, 29 June, 2021
      FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley
      George Osborne’s horrible histories at the British Museum

      Visitors will be able to feast on the former chancellor’s mummified political legacy

    • Thursday, 24 June, 2021
      George Osborne picked to lead British Museum

      Former chancellor editor wins race to succeed Sir Richard Lambert as chair of trustees

      George Osborne
    • Sunday, 23 May, 2021
      LexNigeria
      Art market/culture wars: Benin’s boomeranging bronzes Premium content

      The value of contested artworks would seem to be zero, yet the best of them are priceless

      Plaques that form the Benin Bronzes in the British Museum
    • Friday, 5 February, 2021
      Isabel Berwick
      ‘The Dig’ brings out the archaeologist in all of us

      Popularity of Netflix drama speaks to our need to connect to the ancient past

    • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
      Visual Arts
      British Museum reopens to a new world order

      The institution is under ever greater scrutiny over the origins of its collections and how it presents history

    • Tuesday, 18 February, 2020
      Brexit
      EU to seek UK promise on fighting illegal trade in historical objects

      Greece among nations pushing for demands in Brexit talks mandate

      LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 22: Sections of the Parthenon Marbles also known as the Elgin Marbles are displayed at The British Museum on November 22, 2018 in London, England. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
    • Friday, 7 February, 2020
      Pound Sterling
      Decimal Day 50 years on: British Museum prepares to celebrate

      Call for public to contribute memories of switch from pounds, shillings and pence

      Finance/Decimalisation, London, England, 30th January 1970, Housewives check prices with a "shoppers guide" which converts pounds, shillings and pence into decimal coinage, The United Kingdom switches to decimalisation on February 15th 1971 (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
    • Thursday, 9 January, 2020
      UK arts
      British Museum warns of climate change risk to Arctic treasures

      Rapidly rising temperatures cause exposure of fragile pieces locked in frozen ground

      British Museum curator Amber Lincoln examines a child’s suit made of caribou fur, and a sled made from narwhal tusk, caribou bone and driftwood
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