With much of world on lockdown, now’s a good time to get around to tasks you’ve long putting off. For London’s British Museum, that includes adding objects and images to its online collections ...

Several jewelry items worth up to $63,000 were stolen from the British Museum in London. Items later appeared on eBay, priced for as little as $50. A museum curator suspected of being behind the ...

The British Museum is aiming to raise £3.5 million to save a gold pendant linked to Henry VIII’s marriage to Katherine of Aragon. The London museum says there are very few surviving artefacts relating ...

An antiquities dealer contacted the museum with concerns in 2021, but the institution swiftly closed the case, according to documents seen by The New York Times. By Alex Marshall Reporting from London ...

The British Museum said on Wednesday it would receive 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics worth around 1 billion pounds ($1.27 billion), in the largest donation in its nearly 300-year ...

The British Museum and London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) announced on Thursday that 32 gold and silver artifacts from Ghana, which were looted during the Anglo-Ashanti Wars in the 1800s, would ...

Faced with economic headwinds and changing visitor habits, London’s museums are reinventing themselves for new — and paying — audiences.

From the stone that unlocked hieroglyphics to towering statues and eerie mummies, the British Museum’s Ancient Egypt collection is a must-see for history lovers. ByDavid Nikel, Senior Contributor.