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British Museum

June 2024

  • Detail from the 7th-century wall painting from the ‘Hall of the Ambassadors’ in Uzbekistan.

    Silk Road leads from Uzbekistan to London for landmark exhibition

  • Visitors walking among statues at the British Museum.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Thief at the Museum; Memories from the Dance Floor; The John Dredge Nothing to Do With Anything Show; More or Less – review

  • Freedom Hunters (1977) by Gavin Jantjes.

    To see work by many black artists, go to the V&A

  • A woman takes photographs with her mobile phone of sculptures in a museum.

    Turkey rejects claim Lord Elgin had permission to take Parthenon marbles

May 2024

  • Kusuma Barnett

    Other lives
    Kusuma Barnett obituary

    Other lives: Head of volunteering at the British Museum who helped to bring new life to its public involvement programmes
  • People outside the front of the British Museum

    British Museum says 626 items lost or stolen have been found

    Museum chair George Osborne hails ‘remarkable result’ as recovery effort continues with leads on another 100
  • Michelangelo’s Epifania, 1550-3 (detail). © The Trustees of the British Museum. Funding for the conservation of the Epifania was generously provided through a grant from the Bank of America Art Conservation Project.

    Michelangelo: The Last Decades review – feels close to a religious experience

    This huge yet intimate show of the Renaissance polymath’s work guides you by the heart as well as the eyes

April 2024

  • An intensely personal masterpiece … detail from Michelangelo’s Angels (Last Judgment study).

    Michelangelo: The Last Decades review – where has all the lust and longing gone?

  • Michelangelo’s The Punishment of Tityus.

    Michelangelo and the most sublime declarations of gay love in art

  • BNPS.co.uk (01202) 558833 Pic: ZacharyCulpin/BNPS Pictured: The hoard, has emerged for sale at Duke's Auctioneers, of Dorchester, Dorset. A remarkable hoard of 1,029 historic coins worth £35,000 have been discovered under the floor of a 17th century farm cottage. Betty and Robert Fooks have been renovating the historic property since buying it in 2019. One evening, Mr Fooks dug down 2ft with a pickaxe by torchlight and unearthed a smashed glazed pottery bowl full to the brim with 400 year old coins. The hoard, which is split into almost 100 lots, has emerged for sale at Duke's Auctioneers, of Dorchester, Dorset.

    Dorset couple find 17th-century treasure hoard while renovating kitchen

  • museum stealing

    The big steal: how do ancient treasures from museums end up for sale on the internet?

  • The BBC, Ofcom and now the British Museum – why do the Tories keep interfering in cultural appointments?

    Charlotte Higgins

  • George Osborne clashed with No 10 over selection of British Museum director

  • Surge of interest in Ethiopian culture boosts case for return of treasures, says Sissay

March 2024

  • The British Museum

    British Museum investigated over Ethiopian artefacts hidden from view for 150 years

    Watchdog examining claims key details have not been disclosed about altar tablets that museum is facing calls to return
  • Nicholas Cullinan and Courtney Love pose for a picture outside the awards

    Nicholas Cullinan: energetic leader tasked with British Museum overhaul

    After overseeing a transformation of the National Portrait Gallery he will need to draw on that experience in his new role

    • British Museum appoints new director after alleged thefts scandal

    • British Museum closes to visitors as Energy Embargo for Palestine group gathers outside

    • Visitors to UK attractions increasing but still below pre-Covid levels

February 2024

  • Ethiopian priests at religious festival carrying covered tabots on their heads

    Westminster Abbey agrees ‘in principle’ to return sacred tablet to Ethiopia

    Carved wooden tabot has been at Abbey since British forces looted it at Battle of Maqdala in 1868
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