Highlight touring exhibitions and loans
Every year over three million people see British Museum
exhibitions and objects on show outside the Museum in Bloomsbury.
In 2007/2008, 2,344 objects were on loan to other museums and
organisations throughout the UK.
China:
Journey to the East
Tour dates: 24 January 2009 – 26 June
2011
Now showing at: Willis Museum, Basingstoke
Fabric of a
Nation
Tour dates: 28 June 2008 – 28 February 2010
Now showing at: Wardown Park Museum, Luton
Lindow Man
Loan dates: April 2008 – 29 November 2009
Now showing at: Great North Museum
The American Scene: Prints from
Hopper to Pollock
Tour dates: 28 February – 13 December
2009
Coming soon to: Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Tours ended
Ancient
Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes
Tour dates:
31 March 2007 – 4 May 2009
La Bouche du Roi:
an artwork by Romuald Hazoumé
Tour dates:
2 June 2007 – 31 May 2009
Made in
Africa
Tour dates: 27 July 2006 – 15 December 2008
Matisse to
Freud: a critic collects
Tour dates: 20 October
2006 – 2 September 2007
Mind-forg'd Manacles: William Blake and
Slavery
Tour dates: 7 April 2007 – 6 April
2008
Rembrandt as
Printmaker
Tour dates: 8 April 2006 – 8 September 2007
The
Emperor's Terrapin
Tour dates: 4 April 2006 – 29
July 2007
The Face
of an Emperor: Hadrian inspects the Wall
Loan
dates: 8 February 2008 – 8 June 2008
Throne of Weapons
Tour dates: 9
February 2005 – 25 October 2006
Utagawa
Hiroshige: The Moon Reflected
Tour dates: 28
November 2007 – 26 April 2008
Touring loans
Highlights of the
loans programme