- African textiles today
- In search of Classical Greece
- Sowei mask
- Bubbles and bankruptcy
- Ice Age art
- Line and spirituality
- Silver service
- Asian propaganda
- Arcimboldo to Kitaj
- Pompeii and Herculaneum
- Coins and the Bible
- Arab art
- Melanesia, Art and Encounter
- Women of the pleasure quarters
- Shunga
- Works by Frank Auerbach
- The Mostyn Tompion clock
- Beyond El Dorado
- Wise men from the east
- A Middle East menagerie
A Middle East
menagerie
favourite works selected by curatorial assistants
6 December 2013 – 18 May 2014
Free
Recommend this exhibition
Museum displays are normally organised by the curators who research and look after the collection.
However, no installation can be completed without a team of staff involving conservators, designers and curatorial assistants, the latter of whom are responsible for moving and installing the objects.
This display features a selection of works from the Islamic collections at the British Museum, hand-picked by the Middle East department’s curatorial assistant team and highlighting the theme of animals in Islamic art.

Engraved and inscribed steel lion. Iran, 19th century.