The British Museum

Exhibitions and displays

Shakespeare: staging the world

19 July – 25 November 2012
Coming soon

Ticket booking information

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Blind Minotaur Led by a Little Girl in the Night

Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite

Until 2 September 2012
Free

Liu Dan (b. 1953), Poppy, Ink on paper, 2007. From a private collection, Beijing.

Modern Chinese ink paintings

Until 2 September 2012
Free

London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games medals

Until 9 September 2012
Free

Fragment of a carved relief featuring three horses drawing a chariot. From the north-west palace, Nimrud, Assyria (modern-day Iraq). Neo-Assyrian, 9th century BC

The horse: from Arabia to Royal Ascot

Until 30 September 2012
Free

Perennial lupin (Lupinus perennis) with a bumblebee

North American Landscape:
Kew at the British Museum

Until 25 November 2012
Free

Gold medal of Elizabeth I by Nicholas Hilliard. England, c. 1580–1590

Crowns and ducats: Shakespeare’s money and medals

Until 25 November 2012
Free

Sui Jianguo (b. 1956), Drapery folds – the Discobolus, 2012. © Sui Jianguo

Sui Jianguo’s discus thrower

1 June – 9 September 2012
Free

Other small displays

Hercules Segers and his printed paintings

Until 16 May 2012
Free

Highlights from the world of Sutton Hoo, AD 300–1100

Until late 2013
Free

Money in Bamako and London

1 June – 1 July 2012
Free