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 ...

Expect a fair chunk of the crowds to be clustered around the museum’s ancient Egyptian treasures, the centrepiece of which is ...

The British Museum has today announced that former Apple designer, Sir Jony Ive has been appointed to its Board of Trustees.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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