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British Museum

July 2024

  • People walk in front of the British Museum

    Brazilian artist swaps historical coin in British Museum for a fake

    Ilê Sartuzi put original coin in museum donation box as part of project about number of foreign objects in its collection
  • Bringing of Silkworm Eggs to Khotan, one of the Chinese antiquities on display at the British Museum

    Chinese artefacts in repatriation row were ‘given willingly’ to British Museum

    Amid calls to return antiquities, historian finds documents that reveal many were not result of imperial plunder

    • ‘A live issue’: Hew Locke’s new work referencing slavery displayed in London

    • Notebook
      Is it time to turn the British Museum into the world’s great lending library?

      Tim Adams

    • Anglo-Saxons may have fought in northern Syrian wars, say experts

June 2024

  • UK actor and writer Stephen Fry sporting a beard

    Stephen Fry likens removing Parthenon marbles to Nazi Germany taking the Arc de Triomphe

    Actor and comedian says it would be ‘classy’ move if British Museum returned the ancient sculptures to Greece
  • 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

    British Museum will host treasures from Samarkand in a bid to dispel cliches of camels, spices and bazaars

    • 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

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

    • 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

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