The Queen officially opened the British Museum’s Gallery of China and South Asia in early November in the presence of its benefactor, the Hong Kong- and London-based businessman, philanthropist ...

The British Museum's Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World celebrates the influence of Islamic art across the globe Star and cross tiles, AH 664–65 (AD 1266–67). Iran, probably Kashan.

The British Museum at present has four galleries on its main floor showing sculptures from Assyria, mostly from Nimrud. These Assyrian rooms date back to the 1850s and were last remodelled in 1970.

The British Museum has launched a competition to find an architectural practice which can transform around 7,500 square metres of gallery space—approximately a third of the museum’s galleries ...

Lebanese-born architect Lina Ghotmeh said she wants to transform the British Museum into “a place of connections for the world and of the world”, after she was selected to redesign a third of ...

Stunning 3,600-year-old Nebra Sky Disc — widely believed to be the world’s oldest map of the stars — is to go on display at the British Museum ...

The new space lets the curators display more of the museum’s collection than was previously possible—archaeological finds as well as newly commissioned contemporary art—and create beautiful ...

Paris-based Lina Ghotmeh Architecture has revealed designs that take an "archaeological approach" to the renovation of the British Museum's Western Range galleries in London. Lina Ghotmeh ...

LONDON — The British Museum will display what it says is the world’s oldest surviving map of the stars in a major upcoming exhibition on the Stonehenge stone circle. The 3,600-year-old ...