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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
The Art Newspaper sheds light on the dispute, though the end is not yet in sight
The museum’s archive reveals how air raids threatened the collection and George V intervened to stop the building being requisitioned
Scepticism grows about confiscated silver vessel handed over by the US as an act of diplomacy
The return of objects is not just an international issue—domestic claims can also offer insights.
The gallery was beaten to the post by the British Museum
Leading institutions absent from meeting in Nigeria to foster international co-operation
11 of the museum's works will be exhibited alongside 40 others loaned from around the world
It’s a Late Stone Age horse, of course?
More exhibitions are hit by the loans boycott as Turkey pushes for restitution
The Tate says all detailed entries will be available online by 2014, but critics fear loss of scholarship
Despite the recession, the British Museum, Tate and V&A attract major donations
Multiple claims for antiquities at New York’s Met, major exhibitions hit at London’s British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum
Out of a total of £193m, Tate's gifts by the likes of Hockney, Hirst, Bonnard and Bacon total £147m
Loan of relic caught up in international political tensions
Exhibition aims to unravel the mysteries of the Hajj to non-Muslims
This development has done little to alleviate lingering tensions between Iran and Britain
Both have set up acquisition committees concentrating on the region
The museum director has reassured Iran's vice president that the wait does not mean the loan has been called off