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Byline: Robert Dex Arts Correspondent THE British Museum faces a potential bill of more than PS1 million to reclaim some of its missing treasures. About 1,500 items were believed stolen [...]

Byline: Robert Dex Arts Correspondent THE British Museum faces a potential bill of more than PS1 million to reclaim some of its missing treasures. About 1,500 items were believed stolen [...]

Byline: Tristan Kirk Courts Correspondent A CENTURIES-old silver thimble found washed up on the banks of the Thames by a metal detectorist is on its way to the British Museum [...]

Byline: Melanie McDonagh Michelangelo: The Last Decades British Museum.... REVIEW MICHELANGELO was fortunate in more than his genius. He died just short of his 89th birthday in an age when [...]

Byline: Robert Dex Arts Correspondent THE British Museum today confirmed it is in talks with four foreign governments about returning items from its vast collection. The museum has received 12 [...]

Byline: Ethan Croft THE British Museum is limiting the comments on its Instagram posts after a slew of demands to return a pair of statues to Easter Island. The museum [...]

? THE British Museum was accused of trivialising the Elgin Marbles by allowing a London Fashion Week show to take place in the gallery where they are housed. Designer Erdem [...]

Byline: Jitendra Joshi Deputy Political Editor THE row between the UK and Greek governments over the Parthenon Sculptures intensified today as a minister insisted they should stay at the British [...]

Byline: Jitendra Joshi Deputy Political Editor THE row between the UK and Greek governments over the Parthenon Sculptures intensified today as a minister insisted they should stay at the British [...]

SIR Mark Jones today vowed to 'restore the reputation' of the British Museum after his appointment as interim director was confirmed. A former head of the V&A, Sir Mark takes [...]

Byline: Robert Dex Arts Correspondent A ONE-OF-A-KIND solid gold letter studded with two dozen rubies is the star exhibit in a new blockbuster British Museum exhibition exploring the 'complex' history [...]

Byline: Robbie Griffiths MAYOR Sadiq Khan has risked irritating British Museum bosses by doing an interview with a Greek newspaper in which he urges the museum to 'share' the Parthenon [...]

Byline: Ethan Croft THE British Museum is returning a treasured statue to the Polynesian islands. The A'a, right, has been held in Bloomsbury since 1911 but there was no obvious [...]

Byline: Rachael Burford Political Correspondent RISHI SUNAK said today there are 'no plans' to change a law which blocks the Parthenon Marbles from being returned to Greece. Athens has long [...]

Byline: Robert Dex Arts Correspondent A LAVISH robe made for an empress will go on show alongside a working man's humble straw cape in a landmark new exhibition about 19th [...]

Byline: Robert Dex Arts Correspondent PHOTOGRAPHS taken by American spy planes during the Cold War have been used to help uncover a long-lost palace in the Iraqi desert. British Museum-led [...]

Byline: Edited by Robbie Griffiths TRISTRAM Hunt, head of the V&A, says UK museums should 'share' and not give away contested artefacts to former colonies. 'The only way forward in [...]

Byline: Emily Sheffield LAST week I wrote about the Elgin Marbles, arguably the most high-profile artworks in an increasingly contested debate around restitution. Many museums around the world are returning [...]

Byline: Emily Sheffield Y ESTERDAY I made my way in the crisp morning sunshine to the British Museum to gaze at the utter magnificence of the Elgin Marbles, the future [...]

Byline: Emily Sheffield Y ESTERDAY I made my way in the crisp morning sunshine to the British Museum to gaze at the utter magnificence of the Elgin Marbles, the future [...]

Byline: Robert Dex Arts Correspondent MORE than half the country would support the British Museum returning the Elgin Marbles to Greece, according to a new poll. It comes as the [...]

Byline: Ethan Croft There are some wacky exhibits in the British Museum but the arrival of the Hammer of Thor on Tuesday night raised eyebrows even from curators. Museum staff [...]

Byline: Robert Dex Arts Correspondent OPULENT gold and silver treasures from the Persian Empire are going on show in a major new British Museum exhibition examining how ancient civilisations used [...]

Byline: Melanie McDonagh REVIEW Hieroglyphics Unlocking Ancient Egypt British Museum.... THERE is nothing most of us like more than an Egyptian exhibition, preferably featuring mummies. But I had doubts about [...]

Byline: Ethan Croft FOR years the British Museum has been in a tussle with Greece over the return of the Parthenon Marbles, and with Nigeria, which wants the Benin Bronzes [...]

Byline: Robbie Griffiths THE British Museum closed early yesterday due to the heat. Activists flagged the museum's sponsorship deals with BP, with fossil fuels a contributor to climate change. The [...]

Byline: Robert Dex Arts Correspondent AN ANCIENT Egyptian bath believed to have magical powers to wash away the pain of lost love is among the star exhibits at a new [...]

Byline: Robbie Griffiths AS the British Museum plans a PS1 billion renovation, it is bracing for further pressure to repatriate items in its collection. The museum is raising public and [...]

GUILTY FEMINIST presenter Deborah Frances-White tells us working on the British Museum's new Feminine Power exhibition has given her a new lease of life. 'I am delighted to be one [...]

CAMBODIA has called for the return of antiquities it says were stolen from its sacred temples. Culture minister Phoeurng Sackona claims the Victoria & Albert museum and British Museum have [...]

Byline: Robert Dex Arts Correspondent A FORMER Archbishop of Canterbury has urged the British Museum to return a collection of Ethiopian religious treasures to Africa. Lord Carey said he hoped [...]

Byline: Robbie Smith THE British Museum has defended its decision to move into the NFT market after a scathing attack by an art expert. Bendor Grosvenor claimed the museum 'demeans [...]

Byline: Robert Dex Arts Correspondent A MYSTERIOUS 4,000-year-old timber circle dubbed Seahenge is going on show at the British Museum. The ancient monument, which was uncovered in 1998 when it [...]

Byline: Robert Dex Arts Correspondent A 2,500-YEAR-OLD gold headdress is among dozens of ancient South American treasures coming to the UK for the first time for a landmark new British [...]

Byline: Robbie Smith THE Greek Embassy in the UK has suggested that the case for returning the Parthenon Marbles has been strengthened because of a water leak at the British [...]

BRITAIN and Africa's linked heritage means institutions here ought to explore how the Benin Bronzes 'should properly be shared', the director of the Royal African Society tells The Londoner. The [...]

Byline: Nancy Durrant Arts Editor FORMER chancellor George Osborne has been elected as chairman of the British Museum. In an announcement this morning, museum director Hartwig Fischer said: 'I am [...]

Byline: Robbie Griffiths FORMER British Museum deputy chairman Bonnie Greer has defended its colonial legacy. 'People think the museum is built on loot which is absurd,' Greer said in a [...]

Byline: Melanie McDonagh REVIEW Nero: the man behind the myth British Museum.... SAY what you will about Nero, he's the Roman emperor people have heard of. Fiddling while Rome burned? [...]

Byline: Robert Dex Arts Correspondent BRITISH Museum experts have helped return a rare 2nd century sculpture to Libya after it was seized while being smuggled through Heathrow Airport. Experts were [...]

Byline: Robert Dex Arts Correspondent THE ultimate victim of Ancient Rome's 'cancel culture' will be rehabilitated in a blockbuster show at the British Museum next month. Nero: The Man Behind [...]

A HUGE 800-year-old stained glass window will take pride of place in a new British Museum show about one of the most notorious murders in English history. Thomas Becket: Murder [...]

Byline: Melanie McDonagh R IGHT now, nobody's allowed in Room 41 at the British Museum, where the Sutton Hoo treasure sits silently in its glass cases, but once it's open [...]

Byline: Nancy Durrant ABOUT halfway round the British Museum's new exhibition is an object that makes me feel very weedy indeed. It's a waterproof whaling suit, a bizarre thing a [...]

Byline: David CohenCampaigns Editor EDITOR'S REPLY EDMUND De Waal's Library In Exile exhibition at the British Museum deserves top marks. A fantastic selection of books written by people in exile. [...]

Byline: Nicholas Serota ON MONDAY I slipped into the British Museum and made straight for Edmund De Waal's exhibition Library In Exile which I had seen briefly at the opening [...]

Byline: Lizzie Edmonds THE British Museum today released tickets to its first two new exhibitions to open since lockdown. Tantra: Enlightenment To Revolution the first exhibition in the UK to [...]

Byline: Joe Murphy Political Editor AN appeal to the public to visit London's great museums and galleries while they are 'quieter' was made today by Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden. Two-thirds [...]

Byline: Ayesha Hazarika THE British Museum this week put a bust of founder Hans Sloane in a cabinet explaining his context as a slave owner, but in a museum podcast [...]

Byline: Jonathan Prynn THE British Museum is to reopen on August 27 after the longest peacetime closure in its 281-year history. Visitors will need to pre-book a free ticket. To [...]