The British Museum is back in the news after a social media gaffe sparked accusations of sexism. On Sunday, March 3, the museum reposted a TikTok touting its ongoing exhibition, “Legion: life in the ...

Hew Locke visits the British Museum in preparation for his exhibition. Richard Cannon “What have we here?” is the fruit of two years of Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke’s research at the British ...

Few historic sites are as well-preserved as London’s Churchill War Rooms, which have benefited from their location in a fortified basement that housed a British government command center throughout ...

Sixty items have been returned, the museum said in a statement sent to ABC News. LONDON -- Please return if found: Hundreds of missing artifacts formerly housed in a museum in central London. The ...

There are plenty of crowd-pleasing tools and weapons in a London exhibition about espionage. But spying is about more than cool stuff. By Rosa Lyster The critic Rosa Lyster saw “Spies, Lies and ...

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 have ...

The inaugural British Museum Ball was held on 18 October 2025 with guests including leading creatives, collectors, politicians and cultural visionaries such as Sir Mick Jagger, Janet Jackson and James ...