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Why the Elgin Marbles Should Not be Returned to Greece … Yet

by Elizabeth Marlowe October 25, 2021November 1, 2021

To do so before they have returned the Maqdala treasures and the Benin Bronzes and the Easter Island statues and the Maori heads, before a coherent set of precepts for decolonization has been articulated, would affirm the wrong principle.

Posted inNews

Curator Discovers What May Be the World’s Earliest Depiction of a Ghost

by Hakim Bishara October 25, 2021October 25, 2021

“Everybody in Mesopotamia, as far as I understand it, believed in ghosts,” said Irving Finkel, a curator of the British Museum’s Middle Eastern department.

Posted inNews

Art Dealer Used Offshore Accounts to Trade Looted Antiquities, Pandora Papers Say

by Valentina Di Liscia October 4, 2021October 6, 2021

Cambodian artifacts traded by dealer Douglas Latchford, accused of trafficking in looted art, are on view at the Met and the British Museum.

Posted inNews

Nigerian Artists Offer to Swap Work for British Museum’s Benin Bronzes

by Valentina Di Liscia September 23, 2021September 23, 2021

“We never stopped making the bronzes even after those ones were stolen,” said a founding member of the Ahiamwen Guild. “I think we make them even better now.”

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British Museum to Restore Ancient Vessels Shattered in Beirut Explosion

by Hakim Bishara July 27, 2021July 27, 2021

The damaged Roman and Islamic vessels were on display in the Archaeological Museum at the American University of Beirut during the explosion.

Posted inArt

Over 100 Unpublished Hokusai Drawings Resurface in New Exhibition

by Valentina Di Liscia July 25, 2021July 23, 2021

Created nearly 200 years ago for the artist’s unpublished The Great Picture Book of Everything, the works will go on view at the British Museum.

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How the Labels in the British Museum’s Africa Galleries Evade Responsibility

by Olivia McEwan June 29, 2021July 12, 2021

Despite the British Museum’s active participation in work towards restitution, the current display and captioning fail to be forthright or responsible.

Posted inArt

What to Make of Nero?

by Michael Glover June 19, 2021June 18, 2021

An exhibition takes on the notorious Roman emperor, from gleaming marble to roaring flames.

Posted inNews

Toga-clad Activists Crashed British Museum’s Reopening to Protest Oil Sponsorship

by Valentina Di Liscia May 24, 2021May 27, 2021

BP or Not BP? activists staged a protest against Big Oil sponsorship at the British Museum and Science Museum this weekend.

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A Rare, Looted Statue of a Greek Goddess Has Been Returned to Libya

by Valentina Di Liscia May 10, 2021May 11, 2021

The 2,000-year-old statue, believed to depict Persephone, is impeccably preserved.

Posted inArt

At British Museum, a Promising But Flawed Start to Grappling With Colonialism

by Aditya Iyer December 3, 2020January 11, 2021

“Empire and Collecting,” a new self-guided tour, reflects an attempt to help visitors understand the colonial origins of the collection.

Posted inOpinion

The British Museum Isn’t Doing Enough to Fight Illegal Antiquities Trafficking

by Michael Press October 27, 2020November 5, 2020

While the museum presents its attempt to identify trafficked antiquities as an altruistic enterprise, its policing of the antiquities market also distracts from its historic role in acquiring looted objects.

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