Press releases

2009

Medals of Dishonour
(May 2009)

Gamelan: Music of Java
(May 2009)

New Chinese ceramics gallery opens
(April 2009)

British Museum collection boosted by gift from Tiffany & Co.
(April 2009)

India Landscape: Kew at the British Museum
(April 2009)

Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur
(April 2009)

Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler exhibition announced
(April 2009)

Design plans for British Museum’s new development revealed
(April 2009)

New Medieval gallery at the British Museum
(March 2009)

New Samsung Digital Discovery Centre opens
(March 2009)

The Intimate Portrait: drawings, miniatures and pastels from Ramsay to Lawrence
(February 2009)

Takhti: a modern Iranian hero
(February 2009)

Treasures from Shanghai: ancient Chinese bronzes and jades
(February 2009)

China: Journey to the East
(February 2009)

Shah 'Abbas: The Remaking of Iran
(January 2009)

2008

Forthcoming exhibitions 2009
(December 2008)

Garden and Cosmos: the Royal Paintings of Jodhpur
(December 2008)

British Museum assists Sudan in rescue archaeology project
(October 2008)

Between Tibet and Assam: cultural diversity the
eastern Himalayas

(September 2008)

Designing change: Coins of Elizabeth II
(September 2008)

Babylon: Myth and Reality
(September 2008)

Conservation in focus
(September 2008)

Statuephilia: Contemporary sculptors at the British Museum
(August 2008)

New gallery for Clocks and Watches
(August 2008)

New Egyptian gallery at the British Museum
(August 2008)

Reflecting on modern Japan:
Photobooks from the post-war period
(June 2008) 

Icons of Revolution: Mao Badges then and now
(April 2008)

China Landscape: Kew and British Museum combine to cultivate China in the heart of London
(March 2008)

British Museum announces year long loan of Lindow Man to Manchester
(February 2008)

Church and Emperor: An Ethiopian Crucifixion
(February 2008)

The American Scene 
(January 2008)

Mitsubishi Corporation to sponsor the Japanese galleries at the British Museum
(January 2008)

Hadrian: Empire and Conflict
(January 2008)

Forthcoming exhibitions
(January 2008)


2007

Divine cat: Speaking to the gods in ancient Egypt
(October 2007)

The Korean Moon Jar
(September 2007)

The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army
(August 2007)

Faith, Narrative and Desire: Masterpieces of Indian painting in the British Museum
(August 2007)

Most important Viking Treasure in 150 years found by metal detectorists in North Yorkshire
(July 2007)

Important breakthrough in Biblical Archaeology
(July 2007)

Ikebana: Living Flowers of Japan
(July 2007)

Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan
(July 2007)

New galleries at the British Museum
(June 2007)

The Caribbean before Columbus:
Taíno Icons in the British Museum

(April 2007)

Inhuman Traffic: The Business of the Slave Trade
(April 2007)

A New World: England's first view of America
(March 2007)

La Bouche du Roi: An artwork by Romuald Hazoumé
(March 2007)

Bicentenary of the Parliamentary Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade:
A programme of activity at the British Museum

(March 2007)

The Fabric of a Nation: textiles and identity in modern Ghana (February 2007)

Italian Prints 1875-1975
(January 2007)

Good Impressions:  Image and Authority in Medieval Seals
(January 2007)

Gods, Guardians and Immortals
(January 2007)


2006

The Past from Above: Through the lens of Georg Gerster
(November 2006)

Japan from prehistory to the present:
The Japanese Galleries reopen at the British Museum
(October 2006)

eBay partners with British Museum and and Museums, Libraries and Archives Council to protect British treasures
(August 2006)

Power and Taboo: Sacred objects from the Pacific
(August 2006)

Voices of Bengal
(August 2006)

Feldmann Drawings decision
(April 2006)

Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East
(April 2006)

British Museum decides to return two Tasmanian cremation ash bundles
(March 2006)

Unique Anglo-Saxon gold coin acquired by the
British Museum

(February 2006)


Contact

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+44 (0)20 7323 8484
jmackle@britishmuseum.org

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+44 (0)20 7323 8522
hboulton@britishmuseum.org

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+44 (0)20 7323 8583
kwhenham@britishmuseum.org

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+44 (0)20 7323 8183
jedwards@britishmuseum.org

Esme Wilson, Press Assistant
+44 (0)20 7323 8394
ewilson@britishmuseum.org