The Latest Breaking News from the British Museum

Museums often celebrate new acquisitions, especially something rare or historic. In April 2024, scientists from the Natural History Museum of Jamaica and The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus accepted a very rare and historic specimen: a 16-inch lizard called the Jamaican giant galliwasp (Celestus occiduus). It had previously…

The art gallery boss on the role of museums today, the politics of sponsorship and how Cornelia Parker influenced her decision-making

The British Museum has recovered 268 more missing objects following thefts at the institution.

Museum chair George Osborne hails ‘remarkable result’ as recovery effort continues with leads on another 100

Every Sunday I take the Tube to my office in Leicester Square, exit via the Big Issue seller on Charing Cross Road, dive right into the square, where it’s so jam-packed with people eating take-out I can’t see the queue for Magic Mike or the busker standing at a mic,…

Vadims Haritonovs was scouring the river banks close to the Houses of Parliament in Westminster when he came across the thimble

During a kitchen renovation, a family in England unexpectedly discovered a hoard of coins that was likely buried for safekeeping during the first English Civil War.

This huge yet intimate show of the Renaissance polymath’s work guides you by the heart as well as the eyes

The objects were stolen from the court of the Asante king during the 19th century Anglo-Asante wars.