In the middle of the nineteenth century, the natural history collections at the British Museum had well outgrown their lodgings. New specimens and knowledge were flooding in from expeditions around ...

The British Museum has announced that it will loan "some of the rarest surviving examples" of Ice Age art to Bradford, the 2025 UK City of Culture. Around 70 objects from the museum will be shown ...

“This kind of imagery is now part of day-to-day life,” says the curator Sushma Jansari of the types of objects included in the British Museum’s new exhibition Ancient India: Living ...