The British Museum reveals a fascinating collection of ancient artifacts that push the boundaries of historical understanding. Among the highlights are perfectly carved Egyptian stone vessels, ...

The British Museum released its annual tally of archaeological ... and provides "exceptional insight into an aspect of national or regional history, archaeology or culture" because of where ...

“The British Museum has a long history of cultural collaboration in China,” the museum said in a statement to TIME. “The museum believes that displaying objects from China alongside cultural ...

It also becomes a museum of itself—of its formation, its collecting history, its priorities, and its failings. The British Museum’s painful self-examination might never have occurred had it ...

British Museum thefts: What we know so far Analysis ... described the thefts as the worst in modern history. He told BBC News: "It is by far the biggest theft that I know about from a museum ...

This scandal comes in an age of reckoning for museums in which questions of repatriation and the history of acquisition have come to the forefront, placing the British Museum under fire.

That’s why you sign up for this job.” The exhibition, he explains, will examine “colonial history”, with which the British Museum’s own history is enmeshed. (In the catalogue ...

The British Museum is facing an "omni-crisis" as it launches a £150,000 rebrand project following a series of controversies that have shaken its historical foundations. "Beset by colonial ...

The collection, comprised of 1,700 rare treasures, constitutes the most valuable gift to a museum in U.K. history ... of Chinese ceramics to the British Museum. The Charities Commission, a ...

Founded in 1753, the British Museum has amassed a collection of around ... described the thefts as the worst in modern history. He told BBC News: "It is by far the biggest theft that I know ...