The Latest Breaking News from the British Museum

The Beirut-born, Paris-based architect has beaten a list of top candidates to redesign the museum’s Western Range. It will be the latest in a series of compelling creations which ‘get all the senses engaged’

The British Museum’s relationship with BP was decried as ‘untenable’ and ‘indefensible’

Vast majority of prints on display have never been seen before with several being the only surviving examples in the world

British Museum and Science Museum said BP’s decision to grow fossil fuel investment would not alter relationship

The Netherlands has agreed to return 119 Benin bronze statues to Nigeria, the Dutch embassy in Abuja announced this week. It becomes the first European nation to do so after Germany. The majority of these 19th-century African sculptures, however, remain in France and the UK.

Ahead of his London Fashion Week show, the designer talks to Dylan Jones about the capital’s fashion status, the Princess of Wales and why show season is ‘everything’

A mysterious bronze spoon unearthed on the Isle of Man is rare evidence of ancient ritual in Europe.

Letters: Readers respond to Adrian Chiles’s experience of the institution’s treasures

Navigating London can be chaotic at the best of times. Author Lucy Edwards shares what it’s like as a blind person, from the good (a touch tour of Westminster Abbey) to the bad (guide dog taxi refusals and delivery cyclists on the pavement)

I found the history of the world there, told through the medium of pots. The orgy of earthenware was baffling, writes Adrian Chiles

Greek lawmakers have elected a leading advocate for the return of the disputed sculptures