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Joining the likes of Tracey Emin, George Weston and Claudia Winkleman, the former Apple design chief will help the cultural ...
The British Museum (BM) is continuing to add notable names to its board of trustees with the appointment of the Apple ...
The British Museum has welcomed design visionary Sir Jony Ive to its Board of Trustees, marking a pivotal moment as the ...
A leading English museum has been honoured with the 'Large Visitor Attraction of the Year' title at the recent VisitEngland ...
Academic point-scoring over long-dead excavators turns a potentially grand narrative into a series of inside-baseball footnotes ...
T he longstanding debate over the return of the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece resurfaced following a recent publication by the British magazine. The magazine claimed that an agre ...
Expect a fair chunk of the crowds to be clustered around the museum’s ancient Egyptian treasures, the centrepiece of which is ...
At the British Museum, he will display a 19th-century bust of Queen Victoria, crowned with a Medusa-like headdress embellished with hair extensions picked up in Brixton, where the artist lives.
In 2021, British Museum officials were alerted to a potential thief in their ranks. That year, Ittai Gradel, a Denmark-based dealer in ancient gems, contacted the august London institution with ...
In 1801, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, took the Parthenon Marbles (also known as the Elgin Marbles) from Athens to England. Fifteen years later, he sold them to the British Museum, where they ...
As rumours about talks to repatriate the Elgin Marbles to Greece resurface, we get two experts to make the case for and ...