Nick Ashton, curator at the British Museum, on 400,000-year-old site: “we have the earliest evidence of making fire”

A team of archaeologists say that artifacts found in England push back the earliest known date of hominids making fire some ...

Hundreds of British Empire artifacts stolen from U.K. museum, as police release images of men carrying bags

Police said they wanted to talk to four unidentified men, all wearing caps or hoodies, seen in the CCTV images carrying bags ...

Tate Museums Are in Choppy Waters. Now, Their Director Is Leaving.

Maria Balshaw, the director of the British museum group that includes Tate Modern and Tate Britain, is stepping down next ...

U.K. Police Seek Suspects in Theft of Over 600 Artifacts From Museum

The items were stolen in a “high-value burglary” from the Bristol Museum’s British Empire and Commonwealth collection, the ...
Artnet

The British Museum Has Launched a Website Seeking the Recovery of 2,000 Objects That Were Stolen From Its Collection

The British Museum has launched a new section of its website dedicated to the recovery of 2,000 items that were stolen from its collection. Launching the public appeal today, the museum invites anyone ...

Ivory Buddha, colonial officer’s waist belt buckle among Indian artefacts stolen from British museum

"The theft of many items which carry a significant cultural value is a significant loss for the city," said Avon and Somerset ...
Artnet

Crumbling Roof Raises Conservation Concerns at the British Museum

As the British Museum works to retrieve some 2,000 stolen gems and small objects, allegedly taken from its storerooms by one of its own curators, it is facing another challenge to the collections in ...
Marketplace

British museums weigh the cost of repatriating exhibits

The so-called “Elgin Marbles” are back in the news. Talks between Greece and the UK have resumed over the future of the large pieces of marble frieze taken from the Parthenon in Athens by British peer ...
New Atlas

British Museum transports visitors to Bronze Age via virtual reality

For all the textbooks and museums at our disposal, sometimes it can still be difficult to really imagine what life was like in an earlier time. Visitors to the British Museum this weekend, however, ...

Valuable medieval jug set for British Museum loan

The bronze Wenlok Jug is set to be lent by Stockwood Discovery Centre to the London museum, subject to the local authority's ...
Daily Mail

British Museum to launch its own version of the Met Gala - with invitations already sent out to star-studded guests

The British Museum is set to launch its own version of the Met Gala bringing 'fashion world's biggest night' in New York to London. Invitations have already been sent out to star-studded guests for ...

British police seek four connected to heist at Bristol Museum

Police in Britain are looking for four men after more than 600 culturally significant artifacts were stolen from Bristol ...