Londonist

The Top Exhibitions To See In London: January 2026

Gender, intimacy, and power in downtown New York are all captured in Nan Goldin's photography. To mark 40 years since the ...
Londonist

Mike: The Cat Who Guarded The British Museum For 20 Years

Stories about such felines are many and varied; a newspaper article from 1894 mentions a "huge, grey, beautifully-marked cat" ...
HyperallergicOpinion

British Museum Launches Farcical “Decolonizing” Loan Program

Long-term loans to former colonies are not restitution. They do not acknowledge historical wrongdoing, nor do they restore ...
The Art Newspaper

UK government insures Bayeux Tapestry for £800m during loan to British Museum

The UK Treasury will insure the Bayeux Tapestry for an estimated £800m when it goes on show at the British Museum (BM) next ...
Artnet

Hew Locke on the Little Objects That Reveal a Big, Messy History at the British Museum

“You make up your own mind what to think.” Hew Locke’s voice arrives like a whisper out of nowhere, emanating from speakers suspended throughout his new show at the British Museum in London. The ...
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Brit Gala? British Museum to host first fundraising ball

The British Museum hosts its inaugural fundraising ball on Saturday, a glitzy event that has been touted by many observers as London's answer to New York's Met Gala. The museum, which boasts one of ...
Artnet

The British Museum Is Throwing a Gala to Match the Met—and Not Everyone’s Impressed

As public purse strings tighten, major U.K. museums are racing to outdo each other with ever more splashy fundraising schemes. The British Museum is the latest to turn heads this week with the ...
The New York Times

Crisis-Hit British Museum Names Interim Director

Mark Jones, a former leader of the Victoria and Albert Museum, is set to take over with a remit to restore confidence after a theft scandal. By Alex Marshall Reporting from London Almost three weeks ...
Hyperallergic

The Sun Is Setting on the British Museum

One of the Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum in London (photo by Helen Simonssonvia via The large-scale theft of cultural objects from the British Museum by one of its employees, and the failure ...
Wall Street Journal

‘The World of Stonehenge’ Review: Ancient Mysteries in London

The circle at Stonehenge, in England, was raised around the same time, 2,500 B.C., as the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. Its alignment suggests that it was almost certainly a solar ...
The New York Times

Should the British Museum Get a Smartwatch?

Oliver Cooke, the museum’s horology curator, talks about the 8,000 items in his care — and the smartwatch debate. By Susanne Fowler LONDON — Visitors to the Rosetta Stone or the Parthenon sculptures ...
Forbes

The British Museum: The Problematic Yet Enduring Appeal of Antiquities

In London last month, my first stop was to visit the British Museum. Going there seemed an urgent priority. My thinking was that in such turbulent contemporary times, it is reassuring to see the ...