The Bayeux Tapestry’s Long and Bumpy Road to London

French art experts insisted the fragile 900-year-old masterpiece could never travel. Political will, cutting-edge engineering and unorthodox diplomacy proved them wrong.
Smithsonian Magazine

A British Museum Is Searching for a Rare 1940s Housecoat From a Fashion Brand That Dressed the Queen—and, on Special Occasions, Ordinary Women Too

Patterned with a map of the British Isles, the housecoat was an early design by the pioneering brand Horrockses, which turned ...
Ancient Architects Official on MSNOpinion

Why the British Museum has 18th dynasty Egypt but almost nothing else

A walkthrough of the British Museum's Egyptian galleries reveals a striking pattern: the collection is dominated by 18th ...
Artnet

The British Museum Has Put 300,000 Images of Its Most Famous Artworks Online So You Can Play Around With Them

With much of world on lockdown, now’s a good time to get around to tasks you’ve long putting off. For London’s British Museum, that includes adding objects and images to its online collections ...
NPR

The director of the British Museum resigned after over 1,500 its objects went missing

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Martin Bailey of The Art Newspaper about thefts at the British Museum that led to the director's resignation. The director of the British Museum is out. Hartwig Fischer ...
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 ...
Time

Why the British Museum Is Asking the Public for Help Finding Missing Artifacts

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The New York Times

The British Museum Gets a Giant Gift: $1.27 Billion of Chinese Ceramics

Sir Percival David’s collection, amassed in the early 1900s, includes prized vases and wine cups. “You simply couldn’t build up a collection like this today,” one expert said. By Alex Marshall ...
Business Insider

The British Museum — which has been accused of stealing artifacts from other countries — said it fired a staff member accused of stealing gold and jewelry

The British Museum, an institution accused of housing looting artifacts, fired a staff member on Wednesday who they said stole artifacts from the museum. The staff member was accused of stealing ...
Hyperallergic

How the Labels in the British Museum's Africa Galleries Evade Responsibility

This caption in the British Museum’s Africa galleries summaries briefly the political history leading up to the sacking of Benin City in 1897 by British forces. Although certainly constrained by the ...
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 ...