Featured artefacts from The British Museum’s world-famous collection include the double-headed serpent of the Aztecs, the ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Supporters saw the Mütter’s preserved fetuses, skulls, and “Soap Lady” as a celebration of human difference. New management ...

More than 70 objects from the British Museum will go on show in an Ice Age exhibition due to launch later this year in Bradford as part of the 2025 UK City of Culture celebrations. The exhibition ...

UK MPs urge ban on Egyptian mummy displays in British museums One museum visitor in Edinburgh was horrified to see stolen body parts belonging to his 19th century ancestors on display ...

It's often claimed online that the British Museum in London would have nothing left to show if it returned every artefact that the UK allegedly stole from other countries, but there's more to the ...

London’s British Museum has just received the highest value object donation in British museum history. 1,700 new pieces have been added to the museum’s collection with an estimated value of £ ...

The British Museum is a working organisation carrying out research and conservation and that’s reflected in the breadth of the collection and how it’s displayed.

What is it? When the British Museum opened in 1759 it was the first national museum to be open to the public anywhere in the world. It was free to visit (and still is) so that any ‘studious and ...

The British Museum is opening a new £64m storage and research facility in Berkshire on 7 June, designed to house around 1.3 million objects and to serve both scholars and, starting in the autumn ...