Goddesses, saints, demons: “Revered and Feared. Feminine Power in Art and Belief” is a collaborative exhibition created by Madrid’s La Caixa Foundation and London’s British Museum, bringing together ...
Assyrian artists were masters of naturalism. A relief from 645--640 BCE. (British Museum) Much like other art institutions, the British Museum is finding new ways to engage with audiences during the ...
Earlier edition published under title: British Museum guide. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001 ...
THE publication of this work furnishes a delightful companion to the charming and highly instructive series of insects exhibited in the gallery of the Museum of Natural History. To the naturalist as ...
The British Museum and London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) announced on Thursday that 32 gold and silver artifacts from Ghana, which were looted during the Anglo-Ashanti Wars in the 1800s, would ...
England is looking for someone to write the book about how to return artifacts that were looted during the colonial era. “Restitution and repatriation of objects in museum collections is an area of ...
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 ...
The British Museum said on Wednesday it would receive 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics worth around 1 billion pounds ($1.27 billion), in the largest donation in its nearly 300-year ...
The British Museum has solicited the public’s help in finding an estimated 2,000 artifacts that had been stolen from the institution’s collection over the course of several years. The famed museum ...
A gold pendant known as the Tudor Heart is the subject of a high-profile fundraising campaign launched by the British Museum, which involved actor Damian Lewis (famed for his roles in Billions, ...