Archived press releases
News, exhibitions, acquisitions and announcements
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 semantically
- Shakespeare: staging the world
July
June
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
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
June
April
January
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
September
August
July
- The Power of Dogu: Ceramic figures from ancient Japan
- British Museum Annual Review 2008/09
- Revolution on Paper: Mexican Prints 1910 – 1960
May
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
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
December
October
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
April
March
February
- British Museum announces year long loan of Lindow Man to Manchester
- Church and Emperor: An Ethiopian Crucifixion
January
October
September
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
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
January
November
October
August
- eBay partners with British Museum and and Museums, Libraries and Archives Council to protect British treasures
- Power and Taboo: Sacred objects from the Pacific
- Voices of Bengal