The British Museum is to receive the highest-value gift in UK museum history as it acquires £1 billion worth of Chinese ceramics. Trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation are to donate 1,700 ...

The British Museum are holding private discussions with four foreign governments about the return of artefacts from its collection. This follows reports of a 'negotiated deal' between the museum's ...

For years, the fate of the Parthenon Sculptures has played out in the familiar theatre of cultural diplomatic impasse: ...

Voices from the Edge, a global majority group based in mid and west Wales, created artworks in response to the British Museum's Sloane collection A group of racially diverse artists invited to ...

The Roman gems on display will include a glass cameo with bust of Cupid or Eros, dated 1st or 2nd Century AD The British Museum will put 10 items stolen from its collection on show later this month.

Museum director says loan project will not embarrass the UK and will be a new model for seeking redress for colonialism Craig Simpson is Arts Correspondent for The Telegraph covering the major issues ...

For me October has always been one of the most exciting times to be in London. The Frieze art fair draws artists, collectors and curators from around the world, not only to see great art, but to ...

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 the ...

The British Museum has sent treasures from its collection back to India in a bid to 'undo colonial misinterpretation'. Eighty artefacts from ancient Greece and Egypt have been transferred to Mumbai's ...

A racially diverse community group invited to respond to a touring British Museum collection with links to slavery have raised issues around payment, representation and emotional support. The group ...