Police confirm a man was stabbed close to the entrance on Tuesday morning

The London institution will now reinstate Yilin Wang's translations and is reviewing its permissions policy

An open letter urges museum to follow net zero carbon pledge and fully separate from oil giant, which recently recorded $2.6bn in quarterly profit

The London institution will begin looking for his replacement this autumn, with the new hire having to deal with delicate issues such as the Parthenon Marbles and after-effects of controversial BP sponsorship deal

Vancouver-based Yilin Wang has raised more than £15,000 via Crowd Justice to begin legal proceedings

The Labour party politician encourages the British Museum and the UK government to advance talks with the government of Greece and Athens's Acropolis Museum

The monarch will likely face calls for the return of priceless objects that were seized by British military forces during 19th-century operations

The museum has been under pressure for more than a decade to break off its affiliation with the oil and gas corporation

Move may reflect sensitivities around the museum's possession of the ancient Egyptian object

Foreign Office was dismissive of the museum's attempts to lobby for the contested sculptures in 1983

Admired by Henry Moore and Picasso, A'a has just gone on show at Tahiti's main museum

The Art Newspaper's annual Visitor Figures survey has found the National Gallery has lost more visitors since 2019 than any other art museum worldwide

Restitution shows that a "road of dialogue and peace always exists", according to a representative of the Holy See

Museum is accused of “reprehensible” behaviour in allegedly allowing crisis-hit parent company Adani to greenwash its huge fossil fuel business

Formal requirement for government licences may well prove to be yet another obstacle to a loan agreement for the Parthenon Marbles

"I think there is a way forward where the sculptures could be seen both in London and in Athens, and that will be a win-win for Greece and for us,” George Osborne says

Workers at the Wallace Collection, Historic England, National Museums Scotland and the National Museum of Liverpool will also be striking over pay and labour conditions

Plus, Michael Rakowitz's ambitious restitution plans and Rosy Martin's photographical iconostasis

The artist says he will share custody of his replicas with an Iraqi institution

The Greek prime minister has pledged to repatriate the 2,500-year-old sculptures if re-elected

Plus, Afghan culture in crisis and Kiki Smith’s New York murals

If a deal is finalised, the contested sculptures are expected to be returned to Greece in early 2023, and will be displayed at the Acropolis Museum in Athens

In speech at the annual trustees dinner George Osborne said that "dismantling" the collection "must not become the careless act of a single generation”

The decision to prioritise the revamp of the museum’s Greek and Assyrian displays comes amid escalating calls for the permanent return of the Parthenon sculptures to Athens

The 1983 National Heritage Act was debated in the House of Lords—but the issue of reform will be further discussed ahead of its 40-year anniversary in May 2023

Plight of British-Egyptian Alaa Abd El-Fattah, currently on hunger strike, is focal point of protest as hieroglyphs exhibition opens

A new exhibition based around the Rosetta Stone marks 200 years since hieroglyphs were deciphered

From Cezanne's love of Provence at Tate Modern to cracking the Ancient Egyptian code at the British Museum

Move rebuffs George Osborne, the chair of the British Museum, who proposed a new collaborative arrangement

Temperatures might now be cooling, but tensions around the London institution’s ties to the oil giant are reaching boiling point