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How a Danish museum was asked to safeguard and then return 290 stolen gems to British Museum
The Danish specialist Ittai Gradel, who first raised alarm about thefts of antiquities from the London museum, and earlier returned 61 gems bought separately on eBay, approached the Thorvaldsens Museum to help in repatriating a second, larger set of stolen pieces
UK government should intervene to prevent museum thefts, says expert after reports of missing objects across the country
Art detective Christopher Marinello believes more action is needed after an investigation by the Independent newspaper revealed thefts at the Imperial War Museum, Natural History Museum and others
British Museum’s legal action over thefts is ‘locking the stable door after the horse has bolted’, experts say
The museum's former acting head of the Greece and Rome department, Peter Higgs, is facing legal action after being accused of stealing up to 2,000 objects
Nicholas Cullinan is appointed director of the British Museum
Cullinan, currently the director of the National Portrait Gallery, faces an array of challenges in rebuilding the oldest national museum in the world’s reputation
Exclusive: international museum attendance figures back to pre-pandemic levels
In 2023, many of the world’s major museums equaled—or surpassed—their 2019 attendance figures. However, some UK institutions are still lagging behind, finds The Art Newspaper’s annual survey
Michelangelo’s last decades: British Museum show throws light on works made during Renaissance master’s final years
Exhibition to include huge ‘cartoon’ work and Royal Collection loans
Remembering Jacob Rothschild, banker, collector, philanthropist, and a towering figure in the British art world
A scion of the famous banking dynasty, he led the National Gallery, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Waddesdon Manor
British Museum suffering from leaking roofs as wait for huge redevelopment project goes on
Emergency repairs are being made to several galleries, just over a year after Assyrian reliefs were threatened by serious condensation
British Museum accused of silencing critics after being targeted on social media to return Easter Island statues
The museum switched off comments on one of its Instagram posts after it was flooded with calls for the restitution of the moai objects
Investigation by Portuguese newspaper reveals grappling between politicians and museums over future of Kwer’ata Re’esu
Disagreement centred over whether the painting, looted in 1868 and later sold to a private collector in Portugal, should be bought by the government and returned to Ethopia
British Museum interim director backs Parthenon Marbles loan plan with Greece
Mark Jones also says BP deal is the ‘right one’ and announces recovered items show
British Museum and V&A to lend looted gold objects to Ghana
The 32 items held in the collections of the two UK museums were taken during wars in the 19th century
Striking gold: 2022 was a record year for treasure and antiquities finds, with more than 50,000 items reported
From gold coins to ivory carvings, many pieces were found by amateur metal detectorists, according to latest report by British Museum’s Portable Antiquities Scheme
Who wants to be the next British Museum director? Post advertised with a salary of £216,000
Successful candidate will have their work cut out for them to restore the institution's reputation after last year's theft scandal
Only connect: far-reaching show in Mumbai embodies culture, aesthetics, religion and politics
'Ancient Sculptures', put together by the British Museum, the Getty, Berlin State Museums and Mumbai’s CSMVS, is rated "one of most important ever in an Indian museum"
How the Townley collection became the British Museum’s ‘forgotten’ marbles
Many of the British Museum thefts of engraved gems and glass pieces, revealed last August, were likely from Charles Townley’s collection
The Parthenon Marbles and the myth of the slippery slope
There are some very spurious arguments coming from those resisting the return of the marbles to Greece
Revealed: How British Museum trustees wrestled with ethical and security implications of £50m BP deal
Minutes from trustee meetings dating back to spring of 2023 chronicle the internal agonising before the energy giant’s sponsorship was ultimately accepted
British Museum's long-awaited masterplan includes record £50m BP deal
The controversial ten-year agreement with the oil and gas company will contribute towards the institution's ambitious refurbishment plans
The Year in Review 2023: the biggest stories and the best shows
From the British Museum thefts to the consequences in art and heritage of the Israel-Hamas war
Review into British Museum thefts calls for fundamental reforms
The Independent Collection Security Review urges the museum to take urgent action, including fully recording the collection and tough management changes
British Museum ends the year as the butt of the joke
The annual Christmas cracker joke competition by the British TV channel Gold took a swipe at the theft scandal that rocked the institution
Museums and heritage in 2023: War, theft and quakes
From the theft of artefacts at the British Museum to a hammer attack on Velázquez’s “The Rokeby Venus”
‘Like cutting the Mona Lisa in half’: Greek prime minister doggedly pursues Parthenon Marbles deal
Partnership with Greece reportedly backed by Labour leader Keir Starmer
The long and curious journey of the British Museum's Asante Ewer
The museum is investigating how the English-made jug turned up in West Africa before being seized during the 19th-century Anglo-Ashanti wars
British Museum's ancient Greek Meidias vase will be loaned to Athens—leaving London for the first time in 250 years
The decision comes after the chairman of the UK institution reiterated his desire to reach an agreement with Greece over the Parthenon Marbles
Can digital technologies help to resolve debates on restitution?
Many believe new applications—from AI and NFTs to 3D scanning—are game changing in returning objects to source communities. Lawyers say they can make the process harder
British Museum chairman George Osborne tells guests he is eager to reach Parthenon Marbles deal
His speech was delivered at the annual dinner, held provocatively in the gallery where the ancient sculptures are housed
Unravelling the Kwer’ata Re’esu mystery: experts say the painter could be Iberian, Flemish—or German
The painting had been looted at the battle of Maqdala in 1868, but is now in the possession of a Portuguese collector
Paper, politics and poetry: why artists’ books from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia deserve a closer look
British Museum show and book by Venetia Porter tap into rich seam of works by non-Western artists