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British Museum gifted huge collection of Chinese ceramics worth staggering £1billion

Trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation to donate 1,700 pieces of Chinese ceramics to the London museum

Evening Standard · Nov 13, 2024

British Museum to receive highest-value gift in UK history with £1bn collection

The collection has been on loan to the museum since 2009 in the specially designed bilingual Room 95.

Evening Standard · Nov 13, 2024

Picasso the printmaker: More than 100 works go on display at the British Museum

Huge exhibition will delve into the emotional vulnerability and sexual depravity of the renowned artist

The Independent UK · Nov 6, 2024

Coin trove from time of Norman conquest becomes England’s highest-value find

£4.3m hoard acquired for the nation by South West Heritage Trust will be displayed at British Museum next month

The Guardian - UK · Oct 22, 2024

Hew Locke at the British Museum review: a dense but endlessly fascinating look at untold histories

The artist is after serious dialogue with the BM’s collection, not finger-wagging – and this is a show the institution absolutely should be doing

Evening Standard · Oct 15, 2024

Hew Locke’s British Museum looting exposé: ‘inescapably, deeply shocking’

In a show full of beauty and horror, which even includes ‘Jamaica’s Elgin Marbles’, the artist places his own works alongside those plundered by Britain from long-destroyed peoples

The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2024

Echoes of empire, a million rabbit holes and a close look at a cave – the week in art

Hew Locke interrogates the British Museum, Rirkrit Tiravanija interacts with the tense US election and a ‘library cave’ spills its secrets – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK · Oct 11, 2024

The Silk Road still casts a spell, but was the ancient trading route just a western invention?

Two dazzling new exhibitions at the British Library and British Museum show the riches of the supposed east-west link but also highlight problems with the whole idea

The Guardian - UK · Oct 6, 2024

Picasso the printmaker takes centre stage at British Museum

Big exhibition will reflect life and loves of artist, from his first professional print in 1904 to 1960s masterpieces

The Guardian - UK · Sep 8, 2024

'A king will die': 4,000-year-old lunar eclipse omen tablets finally deciphered

Tablets added to the British Museum's collection many decades ago have finally been deciphered.

LiveScience · Aug 6, 2024