Joining the likes of Tracey Emin, George Weston and Claudia Winkleman, the former Apple design chief will help the cultural ...

Museum staff were kept in the dark about Israel independence day event and have issued multiple demands for an apology from ...

Academic point-scoring over long-dead excavators turns a potentially grand narrative into a series of inside-baseball footnotes ...

"We are very aware of the strong feelings held, and respect people's rights to express their views. We can all agree that the loss of life on all sides is desperately sad," the museum said in response ...

The British Museum, the country’s most popular tourist attraction, was partially closed to the public on Saturday after an employee who had been fired broke in and shut down computer systems ...

We’d do well to keep this in mind as the British Museum announces its intention to keep controversial objects on display. This comes after a leaked letter sent from culture secretary Oliver ...

The Indian tribes from the state of Nagaland have held a meeting at a UK museum to demand the return of ancestral remains ...

Now — 130 years on — the British Library has announced it will symbolically reinstate Wilde's Reader Pass, handing it to ...

The gay poet and playwright's whole life came crashing down when he was found guilty of "gross indecency with men" in 1895.

Ancient India: Living Traditions, which opens at the British Museum this week, traces the evolution of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain art. It explores the deepening popular need to see, interact with ...

Sitting inside a grand office at the British Museum, with a bright green scarf draped over his slim black suit, Hew Locke, the 64-year-old British artist, is casting his mind back to the first ...

Fifteen years later, he sold them to the British Museum, where they have remained ever since. The Greek government has long argued they were illegally taken, and has stated they should be ...