With much of world on lockdown, now’s a good time to get around to tasks you’ve long putting off. For London’s British Museum, that includes adding objects and images to its online collections ...

The British Museum is aiming to raise £3.5 million to save a gold pendant linked to Henry VIII’s marriage to Katherine of Aragon. The London museum says there are very few surviving artefacts relating ...

The British Museum said on Wednesday it would receive 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics worth around 1 billion pounds ($1.27 billion), in the largest donation in its nearly 300-year ...

An antiquities dealer contacted the museum with concerns in 2021, but the institution swiftly closed the case, according to documents seen by The New York Times. By Alex Marshall Reporting from London ...

Sixty items have been returned, the museum said in a statement sent to ABC News. LONDON -- Please return if found: Hundreds of missing artifacts formerly housed in a museum in central London. The ...

Several jewelry items worth up to $63,000 were stolen from the British Museum in London. Items later appeared on eBay, priced for as little as $50. A museum curator suspected of being behind the ...

A cultural powerhouse or a celebration of stolen artifacts from colonial times? The British Museum is a fascinating window into global culture—despite the problematic origins of many exhibits. ByDavid ...