The British Museum was "the victim of an inside job" when a string of items were stolen, the chair of trustees George Osborne has said. Around 2,000 treasures are thought to have been taken from ...

A recent poll found the majority of Britons, 53 percent, support a permanent exhibit at the British Museum about the ...

The new director on transforming one of the world’s biggest cultural institutions, last year’s scandal over thefts — and what ...

Reveal museums’ hidden secrets and put everything on show, says Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A, in The World Ahead 2025 ...

and protests have been staged inside the museum itself. Minutes from a 27 November meeting of the British Museum's board of trustees reveal one member, Muriel Gray, quit ahead of a discussion ...

The British Museum is both an architectural beauty and a trove of some of the world's most noted antiquities. In fact, many travelers say it's the best museum in all of London. What's more ...