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

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 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 ...

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 ...

open image in gallery George Osborne, pictured here with former prime minister David Cameron, said we are ‘still some distance’ from seeing a deal done (PA Archive) Speaking on his Political ...

Discover the British Museum's new visitor pavilions by Studio Weave, enhancing culture and history in central London.

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