Major show will unpick ancient Indian philosophy made famous by Sting’s “eight-hour lovemaking session” claims

With an impressive range of objects, this show evokes the eternal power of the greatest stories ever told

Planned show seeks to raise awareness of climate change, but London museum dogged by controversy over partnership with oil and gas giant

From Artemisia to Abramović, Old Masters to Olmecs, and Richter to Roman antiquities—here are next year's must-see shows

Our pick of the gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections in 2019

We talk about the myth and reality of Troy presented in the British Museum's show and to an activist about ongoing protests relating to fossil-fuel companies' sponsorship of the arts. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Members of the climate activist group BP or not BP? blocked entry to the museum's show dressed as statues based on Greek mythology

British Museum exhibition will display work inspired by epic stories alongside artefacts from 19th-century archaeological excavations

The artefact will be the focus of a joint exhibition with the Halle Museum of Prehistory

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from Dorothea Tanning's Surrealist terrier to vintage prints by Vivian Maier

Over 300,000 visitors had been missed in the financial year 2018/19 because of 'incorrect light levels caused by a broken light fitting'

Since the closure of a basement gallery in 2006 there is little room to store the whole collection

We find out how mounting public scrutiny of private money could affect the bottom line of London's National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery and the Tate

Move reignites debate over British Museum’s position on sculptures brought to Britain by Lord Elgin

BM Arc will provide the institution with 15,628 sq.m to show its objects in greater context and increase public access

Spokeswoman for the London museum says it has not been officially approached by the country over the return of the two objects made by the Taíno people in its collection

Prominent Egyptian-born writer cites the institution's BP sponsorship, treatment of workers and its silence over restitution as key issues

The oil company will support one exhibition at the museum next year, but not a show dedicated to the people of the Arctic

Symposium at the British Museum, part of the Shubbak festival of contemporary Arab culture, will include artists from war-torn Yemen and Syria

The MA curatorial show at the Barber Institute, Birmingham, challenges many of our assumptions

The Trojan antiquities went to Berlin after the London museum rejected an offer to acquire them

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Damien Hirst's placemat portraits to Nari Ward's recycled shoelace installation

Case of Ethiopian tabots shows that trustees' hands are not tied when it comes to the disposal of certain items from the collection

We talk about Manga, the subject of the British Museum's huge new show, and we explore the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Country has requested return of 11 tabots held in sealed storeroom that the Ethiopian Orthodox Church believes should only be viewed by its priests

Ceramicist’s installation The library of exile, currently on show in Venice, will also travel to the Japanisches Palais in Dresden

On our podcast, the curator of the British Museum’s Munch exhibition tells the story of the Norwegian artist’s anxiety at the blood-red sky he saw above the Oslo fjord, and how it led to a masterpiece

From Munch's angst-ridden prints at the British Museum to Van Gogh's love affair with the UK at Tate Britain

We talk to Giulia Bartram at the British Museum about her exhibition of Munch’s prints. And we look at the new shapeshifting cultural centre in New York, The Shed. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

A British Museum exhibition explores the personal philosophy behind the Norwegian artist’s work, as well as his printmaking techniques