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  • Friday, 4 February, 2022
    Osborne taps backers to raise £1bn for ‘radical’ renovation of British Museum

    Government and private funding sought for modernisation of 170-year-old cultural institution

  • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    Return of ‘Elgin Marbles’ will strengthen UK’s global role, says Greek PM

    Mitsotakis insists the case for repatriation of antiquities is ‘very strong’ during a visit to London

  • Friday, 3 September, 2021
    Tefaf Online 2021
    Life support for masterpieces on the edge

    This year the Tefaf Museum Restoration Fund is helping a glass disaster in Beirut and an unusual Manet portrait in Wales

  • Thursday, 2 September, 2021
    Arts
    Hokusai at the British Museum — an enthralling trove of original drawings

    This captivating exhibition of 103 recently rediscovered pictures includes some of the Japanese artist’s most mysterious work

  • Tuesday, 29 June, 2021
    FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley
    George Osborne’s horrible histories at the British Museum

    Visitors will be able to feast on the former chancellor’s mummified political legacy

  • Thursday, 24 June, 2021
    George Osborne picked to lead British Museum

    Former chancellor editor wins race to succeed Sir Richard Lambert as chair of trustees

  • Sunday, 23 May, 2021
    LexNigeria
    Art market/culture wars: Benin’s boomeranging bronzes Premium content

    The value of contested artworks would seem to be zero, yet the best of them are priceless

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    Isabel Berwick
    ‘The Dig’ brings out the archaeologist in all of us

    Popularity of Netflix drama speaks to our need to connect to the ancient past

  • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
    Visual Arts
    British Museum reopens to a new world order

    The institution is under ever greater scrutiny over the origins of its collections and how it presents history

  • Tuesday, 18 February, 2020
    Brexit
    EU to seek UK promise on fighting illegal trade in historical objects

    Greece among nations pushing for demands in Brexit talks mandate

  • Friday, 7 February, 2020
    Pound Sterling
    Decimal Day 50 years on: British Museum prepares to celebrate

    Call for public to contribute memories of switch from pounds, shillings and pence

  • Thursday, 9 January, 2020
    UK arts
    British Museum warns of climate change risk to Arctic treasures

    Rapidly rising temperatures cause exposure of fragile pieces locked in frozen ground

  • Monday, 18 November, 2019
    ReviewBooks
    Who Owns History? by Geoffrey Robertson

    A polemic against the British Museum plagued by inaccuracies

  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2019
    Visual Arts
    British Museum brings an ancient Maya staircase back to life — and back to Mexico

    3D printing was used to recreate the detailed inscriptions

  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2019
    Rachel Spence
    Corporate sponsors have a golden grip on the art world

    Institutions and artists are under pressure to probe the origins of their support

  • Thursday, 8 August, 2019
    UK arts
    British Museum adds anti-Brexit ‘banknotes’ to its collection

    Curator says Johnson and Rees-Mogg ‘skit money’ illustrates character of society

  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2019
    UK arts
    British Museum challenged over sponsorship deal with BP

    Chair of trustees cites ‘tight’ financial pressure after public funding cuts

  • Monday, 8 July, 2019
    UK arts
    British Museum rejects calls to drop BP sponsorship deal

    Cultural institutions have faced mounting pressure to sever ties with energy company

  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2019
    UK arts
    Exhibition of money games opens at British Museum

    Economics, family values and the roll of a dice on the agenda until end of September

  • Tuesday, 8 January, 2019
    UK arts
    Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ comes to the British Museum

    Exhibition in April will feature 83 artworks by the Norwegian artist

  • Wednesday, 5 December, 2018
    Manga comes to British Museum in largest exhibition outside Japan

    Pieces from in-house collection and Japan to go on show in blockbuster show

  • Friday, 30 November, 2018
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Museums should rise to Macron’s art challenge

    Question raised by French president of where ex-colonies’ art belongs needs a new answer

  • Wednesday, 21 November, 2018
    UK arts
    British Museum reveals first recorded account of border conflict

    Message on 4,500-year-old Mesopotamia marble pillar only recently deciphered

  • Friday, 31 August, 2018
    Life & Arts
    How the British Museum is training a new generation of curators

    The International Training Programme is an initiative to spread the institution’s know-how around the world

  • Wednesday, 27 June, 2018
    UK arts
    British Museum defends acquisition of Chinese ivories

    Collection of figurines and other ‘exquisite’ objects was amassed in the early 20th century

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