UK touring exhibitions and loansThe Museum in the UK
Every year more than three million people see British Museum exhibitions and objects on show outside the Museum in Bloomsbury.
In 2007/2008, over 2,300 objects were on loan to other museums and organisations throughout the UK.
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Individual and small groups of objects are regularly loaned to museums around the UK.
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UK touring exhibitions
Highlight loans
Gainsborough’s Landscapes: Themes and Variations
Holburne House Museum, Bath
24 September 2011 to 22 January 2012
Parviz Tarnavoli’s ‘Heech in a Cage’
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
15 November 2011 – 15 February 2012
UK loans
Exhibitions to which the British Museum has contributed loans
Palazzo Rubens:
The master as architect
Rubenshuis, Antwerp
Until 11 December 2011
Giorgio Vasari:
Santo e bello
Palazzo Vescovile, Arezzo
Until 30 December 2011
Side by Side: Poland – Germany.
A 1000 Years of Art and History
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Until 9 January 2012
Prince Albert: Portrait of a man
Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
Until 6 November 2011
Gauguin and Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise
Ny Carslberg Glypotek
Until 31 December 2011
Majolique; La faience italienne au temps des humanistes
Musée national de la Renaissance, Ecouen
Until 6 February 2012
William Blake and
British Visionary Art
State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
11 November 2011 – 28 February 2012
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Until 10 December 2011
Degas’s Dancers at the Barre: Point and counterpoint
The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
Until 8 January 2012