Ben Luke speaks to our editor-in-chief, Americas, Ben Sutton about the disputes that have arisen as the US marks its 250 years since the Declaration of Independence—and hears about the demise of Stephen Friedman’s Gallery. Plus, the story of a heart-shaped pendant tied to Katherine of Aragon and Henry VIII

The museum raised the money to buy the Tudor Heart following a celebrity-endorsed fundraising campaign launched in October

Discoveries by metal detectorists account for 94% of recorded finds in 2024

Ben Luke hears about the British Museum’s fresh approach to the stewardship of its collection of Hawaiian objects, discusses the eerie history of Ca’ Dario and learns more about a late Beuys work

The artist says he is concerned about the “physical and environmental risks” posed by sending the work to the British Museum

The curator Alice Christophe delves into the catalogue and picks out some key objects ahead of the exhibition in London

Historic embroidery will be protected from damage or loss under taxpayer-backed scheme

The 14th-century, English-made Asante Ewer was seized from the royal palace in Kumasi in 1896 and has been held by the British Museum ever since

The move follows a recent report which described the partnership as a key part of the tobacco firm’s lobbying strategy

The redesign of the Western Range of the British Museum, announced earlier this year, is the latest stage of a 272-year-long history

Once many objects came to the museum through conflict and colonial exploitation, but today they arrive by donations, bequests, purchases and commissions

The jugs include the British Museum’s Asante Ewer, which was made in England but ended up in West Africa, before being looted by the British

The architect of the remodelling of the British Museum’s Western Range is reimagining the London institution as “a place of connections”

The protestor took to the stage in the midst of a speech by the museum's chair of trustees, George Osborne

An ongoing initiative aims to inspire youngsters around England

The tapestry will be lent to the museum from September 2026 to July 2027, returning to England for the first time in nearly a thousand years

The Tudor Heart, discovered by a metal detectorist in 2019, is the only object of its kind surviving from the British monarch’s reign

The survey brings together more than 150 works by 100 different artists for a peek behind the clichés of apparently idyllic Nordic life

Behind its ordered, Neo-Classical façade, the London institution has been home to plenty of intrigue and eccentricity

The inaugural British Museum Ball will raise funds for the institution’s overseas collaborations, the BM’s director says, while emphasising the importance of the historic collection’s global reach

Nicholas Cullinan says that French and UK experts will guide every stage of the loan

The appeal references alleged warnings from textile restorers that a move could risk damaging the 1,000-year-old work’s embroidered linen fabric

The castle in the east of England now also hosts the largest display of the British Museum’s medieval collection outside of London

An unusual chance to see Vincent’s own copy of a print which inspired one of his most intriguing paintings

A letter issued by the right-wing campaign group Great British Pac claims there is a “politically orchestrated” movement to remove the sculptures

CSMVS's mobile museum venture, created in collaboration with an exhibition it curated with the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Berlin State Museums and the British Museum, examines the underlying connections between ancient civilisations

The French president made the comments yesterday at a ceremony attended by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer

Campaigners behind a petition that has garnered more than 100,000 signatures are seeking to end the kind of deals struck by the British Museum and Science Museum

Protestors are taking high personal risks with the aim of affecting policy and corporate responsibility to make clear the scale of the looming climate catastrophe

Apple supremo Jony Ive joins Claudia Winkleman and Martha Kearney on the museum's board