Latest and archive press releasesNews, exhibitions, acquisitions and announcements
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2012
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April
- Shakespeare: staging the world
- Crowns and ducats: Shakespeare’s money and medals
March
- North American Landscape: Kew at the British Museum
- British Museum celebrates success of Hajj exhibition
- The horse: from Arabia to Royal Ascot
- Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite
- Shakespeare's Restless World – a new BBC and British Museum radio series
January
- British Museum Centre benefits from Heritage Lottery Fund grant
- India trains future cultural leaders
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2011
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September
- British Museum announces new funding to collect
contemporary Middle Eastern art - Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
- Landscape, heroes and folktales: German Romantic prints and drawings
- The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games medals
- The British Museum is the first UK arts
organisation to publish its collection semanticallyJuly
- Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam
June
- The British Museum Collection reaches record audiences worldwide
May
- British Museum reports large increase in archaeological finds found by the public
- Out of Australia: prints and drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas
- Baskets and belonging: Indigenous Australian histories
April
- Hackney Hoard: Coroner to rule on unique and historic treasure case
- Xu Bing creates site-specific installation at the British Museum
- Treasures of Heaven: saints, relic and devotion in medieval Europe
- Australia Landscape: Kew at the British Museum
March
- Generous donations allow the British Museum to acquire historic ivories from ancient Assyria
- Ivory inlays to be displayed alongside treasures from the National Museum of Afghanistan at the British Museum
January
- Australian season announced
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2010
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November
- Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World
- British Museum to manage Portable Antiquities Scheme, as exciting new finds go on display
October
- Comprehensive Spending review - British Museum budget announced
- Picasso to Julie Mehretu: modern drawings from the British Museum collection
- Images and sacred texts: Buddhism across Asia
- The British Museum lends the Cyrus Cylinder to the National Museum of Iran
July
- ‘A History of the World’: British Museum celebrates success of public service partnership and looks to the future
June
- Journey through the afterlife: ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
April
- The Printed Image in China
- Impressions of Africa: money, medals and stamps
January
- Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance drawings
- Kingdom of Ife: sculptures from West Africa
- Warriors of the Plains: 200 years of Native North American honour and ritual
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2009
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December
- World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre: planning permission granted by Camden Council
- Multimedia Guides launch
November
- Treasure valuation of Staffordshire Hoard announced
- BBC and British Museum announce ‘A History of the World’ - a unique and unprecedented partnership focusing on world history for 2010
- Manga: Professor Munakata’s British Museum adventure
- Forthcoming exhibitions 2010
October
- Day of the Dead
September
- World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre
August
- Vale of York acquisition
July
- The Power of Dogu: Ceramic figures from ancient Japan
- British Museum Annual Review 2008/09
- Revolution on Paper: Mexican Prints 1910 – 1960
May
- Medals of Dishonour
- Gamelan: Music of Java
April
- New Chinese ceramics gallery opens
- British Museum collection boosted by gift from Tiffany & Co.
- India Landscape: Kew at the British Museum
- Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur
- Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler exhibition announced
- Design plans for British Museum’s new development revealed
March
- New Medieval gallery at the British Museum
- New Samsung Digital Discovery Centre opens
February
- The Intimate Portrait: drawings, miniatures and pastels from Ramsay to Lawrence
- Takhti: a modern Iranian hero
- Treasures from Shanghai: ancient Chinese bronzes and jades
- China: Journey to the East
January
- Shah 'Abbas: The Remaking of Iran
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2008
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December
- Forthcoming exhibitions 2009
- Garden and Cosmos: the Royal Paintings of Jodhpur
October
- British Museum assists Sudan in rescue archaeology project
September
- Between Tibet and Assam: cultural diversity the eastern Himalayas
- Designing change: Coins of Elizabeth II
- Babylon: Myth and Reality
- Conservation in focus
August
- Statuephilia: Contemporary sculptors at the British Museum
- New gallery for Clocks and Watches
- New Egyptian gallery at the British Museum
June
- Reflecting on modern Japan: Photobooks from the post-war period
April
- Icons of Revolution: Mao Badges then and now
March
- China Landscape: Kew and British Museum combine to cultivate China in the heart of London
February
- British Museum announces year long loan of Lindow Man to Manchester
- Church and Emperor: An Ethiopian Crucifixion
January
- The American Scene
- Mitsubishi Corporation to sponsor the Japanese galleries at the British Museum
- Hadrian: Empire and Conflict
- Forthcoming exhibitions
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2007
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October
- Divine cat: Speaking to the gods in ancient Egypt
- The Korean Moon Jar
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August
- The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army
- Faith, Narrative and Desire: Masterpieces of Indian painting in the British Museum
July
- Most important Viking Treasure in 150 years found by metal detectorists in North Yorkshire
- Important breakthrough in Biblical Archaeology
- Ikebana: Living Flowers of Japan
- Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan
June
- New galleries at the British Museum
April
- The Caribbean before Columbus: Taíno Icons in the British Museum
- Inhuman Traffic: The Business of the Slave Trade
March
- A New World: England's first view of America
- La Bouche du Roi: An artwork by Romuald Hazoumé
- Bicentenary of the Parliamentary Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A programme of activity at the British Museum
February
- The Fabric of a Nation: textiles and identity in modern Ghana
January
- Italian Prints 1875-1975
- Good Impressions: Image and Authority in Medieval Seals
- Gods, Guardians and Immortals
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2006
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November
- The Past from Above: Through the lens of Georg Gerster
October
- Japan from prehistory to the present: The Japanese Galleries reopen at the British Museum
August
- eBay partners with British Museum and and Museums, Libraries and Archives Council to protect British treasures
August
- Power and Taboo: Sacred objects from the Pacific
- Voices of Bengal
April
- Feldmann Drawings decision
- Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East
March
- British Museum decides to return two Tasmanian cremation ash bundles
February
- Unique Anglo-Saxon gold coin acquired by the British Museum
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