Some of these discarded masks were acquired at the beginning of the 20th century by George Heye, the wealthy U.S. collector and amateur ethnographer who founded the Museum of the American Indian.

The 266-year-old museum has had a rocky few years. It is still trying to track down some of more than 1,800 objects believed to have been stolen by a former curator and offered for sale online ...

The British Museum faced further controversy last year when it was discovered that some 2,000 items, including jewellery and semi-precious stones, were missing, with some even surfacing on eBay.

The British Museum is opening a new £64m storage and research facility in Berkshire on 7 June, designed to house around 1.3 million objects and to serve both scholars and, starting in the autumn ...

The British Museum’s wood and stone tabots are part of its Maqdala collection of some 80 cultural objects that it open admits were looted in 1868 from Maqdala, the fortress and seat of power for ...

Among the priceless artifacts and cultural treasures at the British Museum, a visitor in the 20th century might have also found a roving gang of cats named Black Jack, Mike, and Poppet.

The British Museum is digitizing its entire collection of more than eight million pieces, at a total cost of over $12 million. This move was announced after the museum experienced a theft back in ...

T he British Museum has solicited the public’s help in finding an estimated 2,000 artifacts that had been stolen from the institution’s collection over the course of several years.

LONDON -- Please return if found: Hundreds of missing artifacts formerly housed in a museum in central London. The British Museum has issued a plea to the public to assist in the recovery of ...

The museum confirmed in a press release on Tuesday that it has recovered 60 stolen items and identified an additional 300 that are due to be returned. The recovery webpage says the British Museum ...

From ill-thought renovation schemes to the latest row over the repatriation of the Parthenon marbles, this is not the first time the British Museum reckons with a custodianship crisis.