In Brief
China Sides with Greece Over Return of Parthenon Marbles
President Xi Jinping, expressed his support of Greece's request to win back the 2,500-year-old friezes after 30 years of British refusal.
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This Is What the World's First Travel Guide Looks Like
This first edition of the 15th-century book Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam features the first accurate printed illustrations of Jerusalem and Venice, among other cities.
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Anti-Oil Protesters Will Storm the British Museum with a Trojan Horse
BP or not BP? launched a crowdfunding campaign to build a giant Trojan Horse for its largest protest yet, which will coincide with the museum's Troy: Myth and Reality exhibition.
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The Challenges of Displaying Manga in a Museum Context
Perhaps unsurprisingly, considering the exhibition’s generic name, in trying to be everything to everyone, it’s hard for Manga to satisfy anyone.
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British Museum Workers Issue Statement in Support of Trustee Who Resigned
Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union Culture Group have expressed their solidarity with Ahdaf Soueif, who recently resigned from the board and cited the museum’s endorsement of the oil company BP, its silence on the restitution of cultural artifacts, and labor issues as reasons
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The Limits of Edvard Munch's Radicalism
What remains unspoken in the British Museum's Love and Angst is the ways Munch's dark emotions frequently came to target the women in his life.
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British Museum Trustee Resigns, Citing Oil Funding and Restitution Inaction
In a public resignation letter, Egyptian-British novelist Ahdaf Soueif named the museum's endorsement of the oil giant British Petroleum (BP) and its inaction on the issue of artifact restitution as some of the reasons for her resignation.
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Activists Return to the British Museum to Lead Another "Stolen Goods" Tour
During the event, speakers called for the repatriation of objects acquired through colonialism and an end to sponsorship from the oil company BP.
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How Not to Decolonize Your Museum
The Asian Civilisations Museum's latest exhibition is a toothless interrogation of Sir Stamford Raffles, one of Southeast Asia's most notorious colonizers.
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350 Anti-Oil Protestors Take Over British Museum in Its Largest Protest Ever
On February 16, for a protest organized by BP or not BP?, over 350 activists gathered to urge the British Museum to cut financial ties with British oil company BP.
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Hundreds Attend Guerrilla, Activist-Led Tour of Looted Artifacts at the British Museum
Performance troupe BP or Not BP? organized a “Stolen Goods Tour" at the British Museum, where activists of Australian Aboriginal, Iraqi, Hawaiian, Māori, and Greek Cypriot heritage called for the repatriation of looted artifacts in the museum's collection.
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Stories of an Assyrian King and What Became of His Empire
A new exhibition at the British Museum underscores the material remains associated with the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, and their display alludes to Britain’s long and fraught history with Iraq.