Our correspondent Martin Bailey visits the blockbuster show on its first day to see what the experience is really like for the paying public

A painting of Igor Tulchinsky is on display within the museum’s blockbuster Bayeux Tapestry show

We take a look at the celebrated embroidery as it goes on view at the British Museum, speak to our reporter Sarvy Geranpayeh about the efforts to protect important sites in Iran and hear from Self about her Fourth Plinth commission

The British Museum has agreed to loan two marble fragments to the Liebieghaus exhibition, which recreates the east pediment of the temple for the first time

As the British Museum opens its decades-in-the-making exhibition of the nearly 1,000-year-old embroidery, we pored over its past and present journey

Likely commissioned in France but made in England, the tapestry could have been called ‘the Canterbury Embroidery’ joked the King in a speech

There is plenty to read about the medieval masterpiece as it returns to England for the first time in almost 1,000 years

In 2023, when he was mayor of greater Manchester, Burnham had expressed unequivocal support for returning the Parthenon Marbles with ‘no strings’ attached

The medieval embroidery was delivered to the museum from France in the early hours of the morning ahead of the September exhibition opening

The London institution has collaborated with the Korean music group as part of a citywide experience supporting the BTS world tour Arirang

Tickets for this year's event will cost £3,500 a head to raise funds towards the museum's billion-pound transformation

Tickets to view the fragile medieval tapestry, which is on rare loan from France, are now sold out through the end of 2026, with further releases to come

The museum rescheduled a May lecture on Ancient Israel and Judah upon learning that a significant number of participants intended to disrupt the event

The first tranche of tickets can be booked from 1 July; members, meanwhile, will only be able to visit free-of-charge twice

Gradel’s investigations led to the revelation that 2,000 objects from the British Museum‘s collection had been stolen or damaged

Mystery surrounds where the ‘Aya Kese’ was made and how it reached the West African kingdom of the Asante centuries ago

Meanwhile, London’s Natural History Museum overtakes British Museum as most-visited attraction in the UK

Some scholars however have questioned the wording used in the new labels in the Ancient Levant and Egyptian galleries

Records show how masters retained power over enslaved people even after emancipation

The funding, from Belarus-born hedge fund billionaire Igor Tulchinsky, will help facilitate schools' access to the historic textile

The government of Assam in northeastern India plans to build a new museum space to show the 17th-century Vrindavani Vastra

As her landmark Tate Modern exhibition opens, the artist discusses the rise of Reform UK and the British Museum's "terrible colonial past"

Ben Luke speaks to our editor-in-chief, Americas, Ben Sutton about the disputes that have arisen as the US marks its 250 years since the Declaration of Independence—and hears about the demise of Stephen Friedman’s Gallery. Plus, the story of a heart-shaped pendant tied to Katherine of Aragon and Henry VIII

The museum raised the money to buy the Tudor Heart following a celebrity-endorsed fundraising campaign launched in October

Discoveries by metal detectorists account for 94% of recorded finds in 2024

Ben Luke hears about the British Museum’s fresh approach to the stewardship of its collection of Hawaiian objects, discusses the eerie history of Ca’ Dario and learns more about a late Beuys work

The artist says he is concerned about the “physical and environmental risks” posed by sending the work to the British Museum

The curator Alice Christophe delves into the catalogue and picks out some key objects ahead of the exhibition in London

Historic embroidery will be protected from damage or loss under taxpayer-backed scheme

The 14th-century, English-made Asante Ewer was seized from the royal palace in Kumasi in 1896 and has been held by the British Museum ever since