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    • Monday, 18 November, 2019
      ReviewBooks
      Who Owns History? by Geoffrey Robertson

      A polemic against the British Museum plagued by inaccuracies

      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)
    • Tuesday, 15 October, 2019
      Visual Arts
      British Museum brings an ancient Maya staircase back to life — and back to Mexico

      3D printing was used to recreate the detailed inscriptions

      Palenque in the 19th century, with the Hieroglyphic Stairway, centre
    • Tuesday, 20 August, 2019
      Rachel Spence
      Corporate sponsors have a golden grip on the art world

      Institutions and artists are under pressure to probe the origins of their support

      Feb 2019 - Activists from the pressure group BP or not BP protest in the Great Court of the British Museum in London against BP's sponsorship of the exhibition I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria.
    • Thursday, 8 August, 2019
      UK arts
      British Museum adds anti-Brexit ‘banknotes’ to its collection

      Curator says Johnson and Rees-Mogg ‘skit money’ illustrates character of society

      Bath for Europe - Brexit Banknote - Obverse - featuring Boris Johnson
    • Wednesday, 31 July, 2019
      UK arts
      British Museum challenged over sponsorship deal with BP

      Chair of trustees cites ‘tight’ financial pressure after public funding cuts

      RN1AFA Activists are seen holding a banner during the protest. Hundreds of activists demonstrates inside The British Museum who was sponsoring the current exhibition ?I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria? which is featuring many ancient artefacts from what is now Iraq. By promoting BP, The British Museum is helping a major fossil fuel company and corporate criminal to cleanse its image, make new oil deals and hide its true activities. As the climate crisis unfolds and communities affected by fossil fuel extraction demand justice, it is no longer acceptable for museums and galleries t
    • Monday, 8 July, 2019
      UK arts
      British Museum rejects calls to drop BP sponsorship deal

      Cultural institutions have faced mounting pressure to sever ties with energy company

      Activists from the pressure group BP or not BP protest inside the British Museum in London against BP's sponsorship of the exhibition I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria.
    • Wednesday, 17 April, 2019
      UK arts
      Exhibition of money games opens at British Museum

      Economics, family values and the roll of a dice on the agenda until end of September

      PJFJ8B Tambov, Russian Federation - January 26, 2018 Monopoly money packs with tokens, dices and houses. Studio shot.
    • Tuesday, 8 January, 2019
      UK arts
      Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ comes to the British Museum

      Exhibition in April will feature 83 artworks by the Norwegian artist

      A staff member at the British Museum in London holds 'Self-Portrait' (1895) by Edvard Munch ahead of a major exhibition on the artist's work, 'Edvard Munch: love and angst', later in the year. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Tuesday January 8, 2019. See PA story ARTS Munch. Photo credit should read: Victoria Jones/PA Wire
    • Wednesday, 5 December, 2018
      Manga comes to British Museum in largest exhibition outside Japan

      Pieces from in-house collection and Japan to go on show in blockbuster show

      Undated handout photo issued by British Museum of Shintomiza Kabuki Theatre Curtain, 1880 by Kawanabe Kyoosai, one of the items to be shown in the The Citi Exhibition: Manga at the London attraction next year. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday December 5, 2018. See PA story ARTS Manga. Photo credit should read: British Museum/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
    • Friday, 30 November, 2018
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Museums should rise to Macron’s art challenge

      Question raised by French president of where ex-colonies’ art belongs needs a new answer

      Mandatory Credit: Photo by NEIL HALL/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (9988217c) The Hoa Hakananai'a statue from Easter Island is displayed in the British Museum in London, Britain, 20 November 2018. A delegation from Easter Island is seeking the return of the statue from the British Museum. Hoa Hakananai'a statue return, London, United Kingdom - 20 Nov 2018
    • Wednesday, 21 November, 2018
      UK arts
      British Museum reveals first recorded account of border conflict

      Message on 4,500-year-old Mesopotamia marble pillar only recently deciphered

      Sebastien Rey holding The Lagash Border Pillar at the British Museum.
    • Friday, 31 August, 2018
      Life & Arts
      How the British Museum is training a new generation of curators

      The International Training Programme is an initiative to spread the institution’s know-how around the world

      Hamilton vase or 'Hunt krater'. greek made in Corinth about 575 - 550 BC. found near Capua, Campania, Italy
    • Wednesday, 27 June, 2018
      UK arts
      British Museum defends acquisition of Chinese ivories

      Collection of figurines and other ‘exquisite’ objects was amassed in the early 20th century

      Carved ivory fan-shaped plaque, with a bucolic family scene
    • Tuesday, 19 June, 2018
      World
      British Museum to display Assyrian treasures hidden for 20 years

      Exhibition includes exquisite reliefs from the palace of Nineveh

      Relief detail of Ashurbanipal hunting on horseback. Nineveh, Assyria, 645–635 BC © The Trustees of the British Museum
    • Monday, 4 June, 2018
      Terrorism in UK
      Teen convicted over planned terror attack on the British Museum
    • Friday, 4 May, 2018
      Life & Arts
      Head for figures: Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece at the British Museum

      A handsome exhibition traces how the French sculptor’s obsession with the Parthenon Marbles informed his work

      Rodin in his Museum of Antiquities at Meudon on the outskirts of Paris, about 1910 Photo: Albert Harlingue. Image © Musée Rodin
    • Thursday, 12 April, 2018
      Philip Stephens
      The west’s great museums should return their looted treasures

      Demands for repatriation of artefacts seized by marauders are becoming hard to resist

      web_Museums’ looted treasures
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    • Friday, 16 March, 2018
      Robin Lane Fox
      How Patrick Leigh Fermor and friends shaped our view of Greece

      The bond formed between Ghika, Craxton and Leigh Fermor over the landscape is celebrated in a new show

      Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika. The Black Sun, 1947. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of Rosie Alison. © Benaki Museum 2018.
    • Saturday, 10 March, 2018
      Jan Dalley
      Bringing home Africa’s plundered art

      President Macron’s repatriation promise has brought the debate into the public gaze

      France's President Chirac delivers a speech to inaugurate the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris...France's President Jacques Chirac delivers a speech to inaugurate the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris June 20, 2006. The museum opens to the public June 23 with a collection of 300,000 pieces of indigenous artwork collected for centuries by France from Africa, the Americas, Oceania and Asia. The words on the rostrum read, "There where cultures meet." REUTERS/Francois Mori/Pool
    • Friday, 15 December, 2017
      Life & Arts
      How digital media are transforming art collections

      While high-tech strategies attract big sponsors, engage visitors and enrich artists’ work, is there a need for caution?

      Modigliani, Press View, Tate Modern, 21.11.2017 ‘Courtesy of Tate Photography'
    • Monday, 4 December, 2017
      World
      Record year for UK’s amateur treasure hunters

      Metal-detector enthusiasts made 1,120 discoveries in 2016

      Undated handout photo issued by the British Museum of an Anglo Saxon pendant found at a grave in Windfarthing, Norfolk. Treasure discoveries made by the public have reached record levels, it has been revealed, as gold jewellery found by a student using a metal detector was valued at £145,000. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Monday December 4, 2017. See PA story HERITAGE Treasure. Photo credit should read: John Fulcher/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
    • Friday, 1 December, 2017
      UK politics
      British Museum to move stored treasures outside London

      New storage facility for artefacts to be established outside Reading

      British Museum Blythe House storage
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2017
      World
      British Museum brings ancient Mayan civilisation into focus

      Partnership with Google allows classic collection of images and casts to be viewed online

      Page from the Dresden Codex
    • Friday, 3 November, 2017
      Religion
      Living With Gods at the British Museum — the inescapable power of faith

      The 40,000-year-old Lion Man is the star of the show in a tightly organised exhibition on all aspects of religion

      Set of six tiles used in a domestic Zoroastrian shrine (1989-90)
    • Friday, 25 August, 2017
      Life & Arts
      Tribal gathering: Scythians at the British Museum

      Mysteries of the ancient nomads of Siberia come under the spotlight in a new show

      A 4th-century BC gold plaque of a Scythian rider
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