In “Hew Locke, what have we here?”, visitors are asked to consider the legacy of empire and plunder in shaping museum ...

The British Museum houses more than 60,000 objects from the Americas ... all forming part of the process of acquisition and examination. Focusing on aspects of the archives that caught their attention ...

We will consider all requests to reproduce images from our museum and archive collections on condition that they adhere to our image reproduction policy. Please contact enquiry@redcross.org.uk for ...

It's often claimed online that the British Museum in London would have nothing left to show if it returned every artefact ...

The British Museum's major exploration of Tantric art and iconography hovers uncomfortably between aesthetics and exoticism, finds Nicole-Ann Lobo If you’ve read something you love on our site today, ...

About 2,000 treasures are thought to have been stolen from the British Museum, but recovery has begun of some of them, chairman George Osborne has said. The ex-chancellor accepted the museum's ...

The British Museum said it has found hundreds of missing and stolen objects, bringing the total number of recovered items to 626. The museum said up to 2,000 items had gone missing or were damaged ...

Studio Weave, an East London office, has won a competition to design a new Visitor Welcome Center and revamped forecourt at ...

The original, seen by John Galt in Athens, was destroyed by the Greeks when they set fire to the archives of the Voivode in 1821." The British Museum Act 1963 prevents treasures from being legally ...