WOKE calls to return British Museum’s Benin Bronzes to Nigeria should be rejected, Sir Trevor Philips says. The former equalities czar said the case for sending back 900 brass sculptures was ...

The British Museum’s exhibition on the Japanese master printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) will include Van Gogh’s own copy of a print which he used in a painting in homage. Hiroshige ...

The life of a 166-million-year-old reptile has been turned upside down. While Marmoretta oxoniensis was believed to have swum in ancient lagoons, new research reveals it spent its time climbing trees ...

This site uses objects to tell a history of the world. You’ll find 100 objects from the British Museum and hundreds more from museums and people across the UK.

David Damrosch In November 1872, George Smith was working at the British Museum in a second-floor room overlooking the bare plane trees in Russell Square. On a long table were pieces of clay ...

"The Quilts of Gee's Bend" will end its tour at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco's de Young Museum December 31. The bold drama of the quilt Young was working on in 1965 is also found in a ...

Calls to return the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria have been branded “weak” by Britain’s former anti-racism tsar. Sir Trevor Phillips, former head of the Commission for Racial Equality, argued that the case ...