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    • Monday, 20 February, 2023
      Visual Arts
      Manchester Museum’s new South Asia Gallery focuses on personal stories

      Real people and their experiences are at the heart of the gallery, reopening as part of the museum’s £15mn transformation

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      FT Magazine
      Inside the secret meetings that could seal the fate of the Parthenon Marbles

      How George Osborne and Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis put together the outlines of a historic plan

    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
      UK
      ‘Unique’ Tudor pendant unearthed by UK metal detecting enthusiast

      British Museum says object ‘of national importance’ is rare survivor from Henry VIII’s first marriage

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      The Weekend Essay
      The Benin Bronzes and the road to restitution

      Why a digital record of the kingdom’s looted treasures marks a new era in the battle to reclaim its history

    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
      Collecting
      Works of a great collector, from jade and rare Chinese porcelain to Degas and Vuillard

      Spectacular collections in the London home of the late businessman and philanthropist Sir Joseph Hotung

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      Jan Dalley
      A high-stakes game of marbles

      The politics of restitution are often opaque — but not in the case of the Parthenon Marbles

    • 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

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