Jan Hjort was using a metal detector to scan a field on the Danish island of Tåsinge when he discovered a small piece of ...

It was at Rydal Mount that Wordsworth truly settled, building a ‘writing hut’ and extensively landscaping the grounds to his ...

Seen by over a billion people a week at the show’s peak in the 1990s, the costume helped define the look and style of the era ...

Home to some of the world’s most extraordinary artifacts, from the Rosetta Stone to the Elgin Marbles, the British Museum is ...

The British Museum received 6.5 million visitors in 2024, its highest number since 2015, The Art Newspaper's annual visitor figure report has revealed. The total places it third in our survey ...

A recently released policy brief by a group of MPs in the UK, Laying Ancestors to Rest, calls for all human remains to be removed from British museums. It is mostly focused on colonial collecting ...

Last week, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations (APPG-AR) published a report on the African human remains collected by British museums during, and due to, colonialism and the ...

To mark its bicentennial, the Brooklyn Museum highlights the pieces that have shaped its collection—and the foundational art ...

The museum plans to display the work again around this summer, along with an explanation about how the piece was purchased. The prefectural government says it will ask the Nagoya gallery for a refund.

For centuries, ancient Egyptian mummies have been the most reliable crowd-pleasers in museums across Britain. London's British Museum alone holds over 100 mummies - bodies wrapped in linen and ...

Last July Mark Jones, the former interim director of the British Museum, said that an admission fee of £20 should be introduced for overseas visitors. “It would make sense for us to charge ...

Once again marking a first for the Philippines, Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte inaugurated the Tandang Sora Museum, the country's first women's museum. Its location on Banlat Road holds deep ...