British Museum to close on key day in summer – but it won’t say why - Exclusive: Speculation that the closure is related to ...

Featured artefacts from The British Museum’s world-famous collection include the double-headed serpent of the Aztecs, the ...

France will loan the 11th century Bayeux Tapestry to the British Museum from September 2026 to June 2027, French President ...

When author and artist Noah Angell heard rumors that the British Museum in London was haunted, he set about documenting ghost ...

British Museum leadership and many museums in Europe say, look, they have a good home here. People can see them, and they're well cared for, and they won't disappear.

At the British Museum, he will display a 19th-century bust of Queen Victoria, crowned with a Medusa-like headdress embellished with hair extensions picked up in Brixton, where the artist lives.

In 2021, British Museum officials were alerted to a potential thief in their ranks. That year, Ittai Gradel, a Denmark-based dealer in ancient gems, contacted the august London institution with ...

When the British Museum launched its “China’s hidden century” exhibition last month, writer and translator Yilin Wang began getting confusing messages from her peers.

In 1864, about 2,000 artifacts dug up in prehistoric earthworks 20 years before by a famous archaeologist were sold to a collector in England. If they won’t be returned, how should the situation be ...