The proposal to create high-quality replicas could serve as a compromise, allowing the British Museum to retain a display while returning the originals to Athens.

Home to some of the world’s most extraordinary artifacts, from the Rosetta Stone to the Elgin Marbles, the British Museum is ...

Meanwhile, Tiffany Jenkins, the author of Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended up in Museums and Why ...

The Western Range makes up one third of the museum’s footprint and is home to the collections from ancient Egypt, Greece, and ...

Living Traditions will run from May 22 until October 19, 2025, in the Sainsbury Exhibition Gallery at the British Museum.

The British pop icon emphatically supports the return of the Acropolis sculptures taken by Lord Elgin, urging Britain to ...

The most-visited attraction in the UK for the second year in a row was the British Museum, according to official figures. The famous London museum saw 6,479,952 visitors through its doors in 2024 ...

Among of the new trustees appointed to the British Museum is an academic expert opposed to the return of antiquities taken from their country of origin in colonial contexts, such as the museum’s most ...

The British Museum received 6.5 million visitors in 2024, its highest number since 2015, The Art Newspaper's annual visitor figure report has revealed. The total places it third in our survey ...