International touring exhibitions and loans
Exhibitions tour internationally as a popular means of
fulfilling the Museum's ambition to be
a museum of the world for
the world.
The Museum loaned 1,925 objects to 104 venues outside the
UK in 2007/8, through touring exhibitions and individual loans.
xxxx people enjoyed objects from the British Museum in Africa,
Asia, the Americas, xxxx
Touring exhibitions
Currently touring, due to tour and some which have toured
recently:
The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece
MARQ, Alicante, Spain (2 April – 13
October 2009)
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(pdf)
Treasures of the World's Cultures
National Palace Museum, Taipei (12 February – 27 May
2007)
Hong Kong Museum of Art (14 September – 2 December 2007)
Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, Canada (1 May –
30 September 2009)
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Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle
East
Dubai International Finance Centre (6 February – 30 April
2008)
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(pdf)
Mummy: The Inside Story
Science Centre, Tokyo, Japan (October 2006 – February
2007)
Kobe City Museum, Kobe, Japan (March – June 2007)
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details (pdf)
Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art
Florida (December 2006 – March 2007)
North Carolina (April – July 2007)
New Mexico (November 2007 – February 2008)
Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt
Bowers Museum, Santa Ana (January
2007 – April 2008)
The Ancient Olympic Games
The Shanghai Museum, China (1 May – 12 July 2008)
Hong Kong Heritage Museum (2 August – 24 November 2008)
Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria
Museo Arqueológico Provincial de Alicante, Spain (2 April
– 30 September 2007)
Museum of Fine Art, Boston (15 September 2008 – 4 January
2009)
A New World: England’s First View of America
North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh (20 October 2007 –
14 January 2008)
Yale Center for British Art (6 March – 1 June 2008)
The Jamestown Settlement, Virginia (15 July – 15
October 2008)
Exhibitions under development
Jewellery: adornment, identity and magic
Drawing on the unparalleled collection of the British
Museum,
this exhibition examines the varied ways that jewellery has
been
used in different human societies.
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International loans
The Museum sends many loans across the world to support
the work of other museums. In 2007/8 the Museum lent Iznik
pottery to Kuala Lumpur, a Parmigianino etching to Munich,
Jacobean tiles to Belfast, Iranian finials to Paris, Egyptian
statues to Ljubljana, and a 5th-century ivory casket showing
the earliest known representation of the Passion narrative to the
Kimbell Art Museum in Forth Worth.
Figures of Apollo and Aphrodite travelled to Paris and Athens
for the international exhibition on the Greek sculptor Praxiteles.
The Museum also made significant loans to Benin: Kings and
Rituals shown in Paris, Vienna, Berlin and Chicago.
Image caption: The groundbreaking
exhibition Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle
East, showing contemporary art from across the Middle
East toured to Dubai, where it was dramatically launched in the
city centre.