Japan galleries refurbished under new ten-year partnership with Mitsubishi Corporation

Hidden underground galleries closed since 2006 still house £100m Assyrian relief

Michael Jackson is a thrilling muse at the National Portrait Gallery, while ancient Egypt is given a modern twist at the British Museum

Donation from Victor Sassoon was not accepted by the museum when it was first offered in the 1950s

Under new partnership, the London museum will lend key objects to the new institution in Abu Dhabi

Loans likely to come from Iran—but works from the Met would not meet London museum's strict borrowing guidelines

Comments come after Unesco calls for “mutually acceptable” solution to 200-year-old issue

It is the first Western institution to launch a long-term project to study and conserve pictorial art from the country

Private Eye editor will select 100 objects highlighting dissent down the ages

The initiative, which involves governments and the art world, will set up a public database of objects

Rodin takes on the Parthenon sculptures at the British Museum while James Cook sets sail for the British Library

Eighty marble, bronze and plaster works by French artist are put in dialogue with ancient Greek art

Ambassador made request at display opening in South Kensington

Featuring a 900-year-old missal looted during the Second World War

One attempt was made in 1953 to mark the coronation of Elizabeth II and another for the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings in 1066

The British Museum has the space and facilities to restore the embroidery, which is returning to England for first time in 940 years

Historic embroidery to leave France for first time since the 11th century

New research facility will provide new home for many of the two million artefacts currently at Blythe House

Encyclopaedic show was inspired by former director Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects

From the British Museum's Lion Man to Matisse's studio studies at the Royal Academy

Earliest surviving figurative sculpture, carved from mammoth tusk, is among 160 objects in Living with Gods

Construction delays to the Zayed National Museum are behind the move

Pledge by European museums to set up “permanent display” of rotating loans in Benin City could pave way for restitution

The mysterious Scythians—tattoos and all—are brought to life in show at the British Museum

The British Museum show will examine the French artist’s obsession with its most famous exhibits

British Museum exhibition organised with Hermitage traces history of a culture with no written records

Looking beyond his iconic Great Wave at treasures from the museum's collection and from around the globe

200 works are now on show which explore hot topics from the 1960s onward, from Vietnam to the AIDs crisis

The British Museum reopens the Waddesdon Bequest Wunderkammer, funded by Lord Rothschild