A group of racially diverse artists invited to reinterpret a touring British Museum collection with links to slavery have raised issues around payment, representation and emotional support.

After they are sent to the British Museum, pieces will be lent to the Shanghai Museum in China and Metropolitan Museum in New ...

The piece, one side of which is an enamel copy of a 16th-century woodcut, the other side crafted in Ethiopia, reveals how ...

Items in the collection date from the third to 20th Century The British Museum is to be given Chinese ceramics worth £1bn in what is believed to be the highest-value gift received by a UK museum.

From the Rosetta Stone to the Parthenon Sculptures to Mesopotamian objects, the British Museum is a history buff's dream containing artifacts in the millions. The immense collection can make an ...

Private Eye editor Ian Hislop has picked out over 100 unassuming objects from the British Museum collection, dating from 1300 BC to 2016 – all of which share the common goal of sticking it to the man ...

In definition, the modern museum is either a building or institution that cares for or displays a collection of numerous artifacts of cultural, historical, scientific or artistic importance.

The Museum collection is comprised of remains from over 50 countries, covering all of the inhabited continents. Around half of the remains originate from archaeological excavations in the British ...

The government agreed to purchase Sloane’s collection and then built the British Museum so these items could be displayed to the public. The Museum remained part of the British Museum until 1963, when ...

As Museum of Fine Arts, Houston celebrated the 100th anniversary of its inaugural building last fall, MFAH director and ...

Voices from the Edge, a global majority group based in mid and west Wales, created artworks in response to the British Museum's Sloane collection A group of racially diverse artists invited to ...