Latest press releases
News, exhibitions, acquisitions and
announcements
2013
May
April
- British Museum celebrates progress on the World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre
- Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum app
February
- Social fabric: African textiles today
- Sowei mask: spirit of Sierra Leone
- British Museum acquires Trust for African Rock Art collection with support from the Arcadia Fund
- Pompeii Live from the British Museum
January
2012
December
- Exciting new finds highlight the
ongoing success of the Treasure Act and
Portable Antiquities Scheme
November
- Bubbles and bankruptcy: Financial crises in Britain since 1700
- Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind
- The Cyrus Cylinder travels to the US
October
September
- Flame and Water pots: prehistoric ceramic art from Japan
- Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum
- Ritual and revelry: the art of drinking in Asia
August
July
- Stolen artefacts returned to the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul
- 'Fortune reigns in gifts of the
world'
British Museum celebrates a year of generosity with gifts from button badges to Picasso
June
May
April
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