21 February 2025 • Mark Westall
Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture (LG—A) will redesign Western Range galleries. A pivotal moment in the project to transform the Museum’s historic building
27 January 2025 • Mark Westall
Young people based in London who are aged 18-24 can now apply to join the programme, with applications open until… Read More
14 November 2024 • Mark Westall
The British Museum has received a historic gift: a private collection of Chinese ceramics valued at around £1 billion
7 November 2024 • Meike Brunkhorst
Picasso: Printmaker – reached via a golden lift in the Living and Dying section – a fitting route to an exhibition chronicling the modern master’s life in works on paper.
22 October 2024 • Meike Brunkhorst
There are close to a hundred rooms at the British Museum, grouped by region and period and filled with objects… Read More
10 September 2024 • Mark Westall
100 prints from one of the world’s best-known artists – Pablo Picasso
3 September 2024 • Mark Westall
Major new exhibition by the renowned Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke to open at the British Museum
14 May 2024 • Mark Westall
Partners announced for British Museum’s youth-led arts and culture programme.- Youth-led British Museum programme Where we are… has today announced its Key… Read More
28 March 2024 • Mark Westall
Dr Nicholas Cullinan OBE has been appointed as the new Director of the British Museum, following the unanimous approval of the Board of Trustees and the agreement of the Prime Minister.
3 May 2023 • Mark Westall
A major exhibition exploring the relationship between luxury and power in the Middle East and southeast Europe between 550-30 BC, Luxury and power: Persia to Greece, is now open at the British Museum until 13th August 2023.
22 December 2022 • Mark Westall
Here are eight museum exhibitions we are looking forward to in 2023
20 December 2022 • Mark Westall
This major exhibition at the British Museum will explore the relationship between luxury and power in the Middle East and southeast Europe between 550-30 BC.
22 August 2022 • Mark Westall
The British Museum is to exhibit eight ancient glass vessels which were damaged in the 2020 Beirut port explosion and… Read More
10 July 2022 • Tabish Khan
Raphael, the climate, Stonehenge, flowers and the news in a museum-fest of a top 5.
6 July 2022 • Mark Westall
This autumn a major exhibition at the British Museum will mark one of the most important moments in our understanding… Read More
24 September 2021 • Mark Westall
LaCollection, a new NFT art platform dedicated to museum and institutional collections, launches with an exclusive partnership with the British… Read More
15 February 2021 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic normally picks five exhibitions to see in London, but as we’re in lockdown in the UK he has switched to books to read.
28 April 2020 • Mark Westall
The British Museum today launches a major revamp of its online collection database, allowing over 4 million objects to be seen by people anywhere in the world.
6 January 2020 • Mark Westall
A masterpiece by one of India’s greatest painters has been saved from export after being purchased by the British Museum. ‘The Trumpeters’ by Nainsukh of Guler – described as a work “unparalleled in North Indian art”
5 September 2019 • Mark Westall
After a successful tour in which almost 90,000 people across four UK venues visited Portrait of the artist: Käthe Kollwitz, this exhibition of her prints now comes to the British Museum featuring new additions of the artist’s work.
9 January 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent
The dominant contemporary feature of the British Museum’s well-received received new Islamic Gallery* is a site-specific work by Idris Khan.
6 June 2018 • Staff
This week I fluctuated around London – from Bloomsbury’s British Museum, to a church in Bethnal Green and back to Mayfair – inhaling the fluid nature of the performances and works I saw. I was so engrossed in this state of flux that I pushed my usual Tuesday column to Wednesday, to make room for Cárdenas’s opening at Almine Rech which took place last night.
1 March 2018 • Mark Westall
The world’s earliest figural tattoos have been revealed on two natural mummies in the British Museum’s collection. Dating to between 3351 to 3017 BC (95.4% probability),
1 October 2017 • Tabish Khan
Abstract colour, a decaying painting, food porn, sculpture, technology meets history, cinematic photography, watercolours and crab coffins.
