Richard Owen, then superintendent of natural history collections, persuaded the trustees of the British Museum that a separate building was needed to accommodate their ever-growing catalogue of the ...

Rotting roof trusses and crumbling window lintels are likely to keep Topsham Museum closed for the rest of 2025, trustees ...

After a two-year closure, the Yale Center for British Art has reopened with its historical collections in lively conversation ...

Since its establishment in the 1750s, the British Museum has been the cultural institution at the heart of the United Kingdom. Intended to cover all aspects of study, from history to science ...

Wokingham Borough Council has approved plans for a new access road to the British Museum in Thames Valley Science Park.

A former British Museum employee has allegedly attacked ... The museum says the contractor, who was recently dismissed, entered the building and shut down computer systems before being apprehended.

The British Museum has been gifted one of the world's ... Discovering most of its in boxes, he paid for the restoration of a building to exhibit the prized art and artifacts.

The British Museum said it was holding "constructive ... has reserved a space for the Parthenon friezes on the first floor of the building, where the four sides of the temple have been faithfully ...

The Sir Percival David Foundation will permanently donate its £1 billion ($1.27 billion) Chinese ceramics collection to the British Museum, following regulatory approval to amend its governing ...