British Sign Language (BSL)

We have a number of videos of BSL translations of articles on our Highlight objects

• The Rosetta stone
• Gold imitation dinar of Offa
• Head of a horse of Selene from the Parthenon sculptures
• Predynastic Egyptian burial
• The Oxus treasure
• The Yaxchilan lintels
• The Hoxne hoard
• The Lewis Chessmen
• Group of Tang dynasty ceramic tomb figures
• Bronze figure of Tara
• Korean scholar's study
• Feather bonnet of Yellow Calf
• Head of a King of Ife
• Kozo, the double-headed dog
• The royal game of Ur
• Discobolos
• Stone handaxe from Olduvai Gorge
• Michelangelo cartoon

BSL school project

Frank Barnes Primary School is one of the few schools for Deaf children in England which promotes a BSL bilingual approach, and the only one of its kind in London. in 2008 the British Museum asked three groups of Frank Barnes students to use BSL to describe some of the key objects in the Museum.

• Lion hunts
• The Parthenon frieze
• Watching the procession
• African masks