Its priceless artefacts include the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles (renamed the Parthenon Sculptures by those who believe ...
The British Museum is partially closed to the public after an employee who had been fired broke in and shut down computer ...
The British Museum has been partially closed since Friday afternoon following a sabotage of its technical systems and certain areas remain inaccessib ...
The piece, one side of which is an enamel copy of a 16th-century woodcut, the other side crafted in Ethiopia, reveals how ...
The Library also holds a significant collection of 3,500 drawings ... of the Richard Owen Collection of Palaeontological and Zoological Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History).
New galleries, social areas and an expanded museum collection are planned for the space left when a library moves to its new ...
The new director of the British Museum has suggested the institution could pursue a “lending library” approach under his tenure – potentially paving the way for a return of the Parthenon ...
The American painter Benjamin West and the director of the British Museum library, Joseph Planta, appear seated in armchairs (left). The metopes are displayed high on the wall, and the running ...