In the middle of the nineteenth century, the natural history collections at the British Museum had well outgrown their lodgings. New specimens and knowledge were flooding in from expeditions around ...

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 ...

who is chair of the British Museum's board of trustees. "Each generation makes its own contribution: two hundred years ago our forebears commissioned the great classical facade; a hundred years ...