The donation makes the museum's Chinese ceramics collection the largest outside China, with 10,000 items displayed in a ...

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 ...

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.

“The British Museum fully acknowledges the complex histories of objects within the collection and recognises our responsibility to engage audiences about their interconnected history in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A British museum will remove the bones of a true-life ... The study linked four families with a history of gigantism to Byrne, tracing ancestry back some 60 generations.

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 ...

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 ...