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The British Museum (BM) is continuing to add notable names to its board of trustees with the appointment of the Apple ...
Joining the likes of Tracey Emin, George Weston and Claudia Winkleman, the former Apple design chief will help the cultural ...
The British Museum has welcomed design visionary Sir Jony Ive to its Board of Trustees, marking a pivotal moment as the ...
Academic point-scoring over long-dead excavators turns a potentially grand narrative into a series of inside-baseball footnotes ...
Expect a fair chunk of the crowds to be clustered around the museum’s ancient Egyptian treasures, the centrepiece of which is ...
The British Museum has today announced that former Apple designer, Sir Jony Ive has been appointed to its Board of Trustees.
When the British Museum launched its “China’s hidden century” exhibition last month, writer and translator Yilin Wang began getting confusing messages from her peers.
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 ...
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 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 ...