A leading English museum has been honoured with the 'Large Visitor Attraction of the Year' title at the recent VisitEngland ...

Joining the likes of Tracey Emin, George Weston and Claudia Winkleman, the former Apple design chief will help the cultural ...

Academic point-scoring over long-dead excavators turns a potentially grand narrative into a series of inside-baseball footnotes ...

The British Museum, the country’s most popular tourist attraction, was partially closed to the public on Saturday after an employee who had been fired broke in and shut down computer systems ...

Charles Townley, one of Britain’s first great collectors of antiquities, was born in Lancashire in 1737. A distaff descendant of the aristocratic Howard family, he was educated mostly in France ...

LONDON — Over the years, many have tried to persuade the British Museum to return the Elgin marbles to Greece. But Roger Michel has something the others didn’t: A life-size head of a horse ...

By Alex Marshall Reporting from London 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 ...

Sitting inside a grand office at the British Museum, with a bright green scarf draped over his slim black suit, Hew Locke, the 64-year-old British artist, is casting his mind back to the first ...

The British Museum has today announced that former Apple designer, Sir Jony Ive has been appointed to its Board of Trustees.

Fifteen years later, he sold them to the British Museum, where they have remained ever since. The Greek government has long argued they were illegally taken, and has stated they should be ...