Past exhibitions
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2012
- Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam
26 January – 15 April 2012 - Artists and the Hajj
26 January – 15 April 2012 - The cost of living in Roman and modern Britain
11 August 2011 – 15 April 2012 - Manga at the British Museum drawings by Hoshino Yukinobu
29 September 2011 – 9 April 2012 - Landscape, heroes and folktales: German Romantic prints and drawings
Extended – 9 April 2012 - Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
Extended – 26 February 2012 - Modern Syrian art at the British Museum
4 July 2011 – 9 January 2012
- Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam
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2011
- Hokusai's Great Wave
3 November 2011 – 8 January 2012 - WCEC Artist in residence: Documenting the Museum's changing landscape
6 – 27 December 2011 - Crocodile dance mask from the Torres Strait Islands
11 August – 16 October 2011 - Australian season
21 April – 16 October 2011 - Treasures of Heaven: saints, relics and devotion in medieval Europe
23 June – 9 October 2011 - Traditional jewellery and dress from the Balkans
21 January – 18 September 2011 - Adornment and identity: jewellery and costume from Oman
21 January – 18 September 2011 - Eric Gill: public and private art
10 February – 7 August 2011 " - Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World
3 March – 17 July 2011 " - An installation by Xu Bing: Background Story 7
12 May – 10 July 2011 - No equal in all the world' artistic legacies of Herat, Afghanistan
3 March – 3 July 2011 - Hackney Hoard: A fascinating find on display
18 April – 26 April 2011 - Picasso to Julie Mehretu: modern drawings from the British Museum collection
7 October 2010 – 25 April 2011 - Afghanistan: Faces of hope
30 March – 18 April 2011 - Sikh fortress turban
17 February – 17 April 2011 - Images and sacred texts Buddhism across Asia
14 October 2010 – 3 April 2011 - Ancient Egyptian: Book of the Dead
3 November – 6 March 2011 - Lasting impressions: Seals from the Islamic World
15 December 2010 – 23 February 2011 - Impressions of Africa: Money, medals and stamps
1 April 2010 – 6 February 2011 - Agents of the Buddha: 17th-century Japanese sculptures of Fugen and Monju
11 November 2010 – 9 January 2011
- Hokusai's Great Wave
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2010
- Akan drum: the drummer is calling me
12 August – 10 October 2010 - South Africa Landscape: Kew at the British Museum
29 April – 10 October 2010 - The Printed Image in China: from the 8th to the 21st centuries
6 May – 5 September 2010 - Italian Renaissance Drawings: Masterpieces from the Uffizi Gallery
22 April – 25 July 2010 - Rulership and ritual: Maya relief of royal blood-letting
13 May – 11 July 2010 - Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa
until 4 July 2010 - Treasures from Medieval York: England's other capital
12 February – 27 June 2010 - Swimming reindeer: an Ice Age masterpiece
11 February – 11 April 2010 - Warriors of the Plains: 200 years of Native North American honour and ritual
7 January – 5 April 2010
- Akan drum: the drummer is calling me
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2009
- Ruin and rebellion: uncovering the past at Tutbury Castle
9 July 2009 – 21 March 2010 - The Staffordshire Hoard
3 November 2009 – 17 April 2010 - Revolution on paper: Mexican prints 1910–1960
22 October 2009 – 5 April 2010 - Manga: Professor Munakata’s British Museum adventure
5 November 2009 – 3 January 2010 - Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler
24 September 2009 – 24 January 2010 - The power of dogu: ceramic figures from ancient Japan
10 September – 22 November 2009 - Imagining the forest: a painting on silk from eastern India
13 August – 4 October 2009 - Medals of Dishonour
25 June – 27 September 2009 - Indian Summer
May – September 2009 - Dazzling the enemy: shields from the Pacific
14 May – 16 August 2009 - Gamelan: music of Java
21 May – 12 July 2009 - The splendour of Isfahan: coins from Iran
5 March – 5 July 2009 - Shah 'Abbas: The remaking of Iran
19 February – 14 June 2009 - The Intimate Portrait: drawings, miniatures and pastels from Ramsay to Lawrence
5 March – 31 May 2009 - Takhti: a modern Iranian hero
19 February – 19 April 2009 - Treasures from Shanghai: ancient Chinese bronzes and jades
30 January – 27 March 2009
- Ruin and rebellion: uncovering the past at Tutbury Castle
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2008
- Between Tibet and Assam: cultural diversity in the eastern Himalayas
23 October 2008 – 13 April 2009 - Babylon: Myth and Reality
13 November 2008 – 15 March 2009 - Designing change: coins of Elizabeth II
18 September 2008 – 1 March 2009 - Statuephilia: contemporary sculptors at the British Museum
4 October 2008 – 25 January 2009 - British sculptors’ drawings: Moore to Gormley
25 September 2008 – 25 January 2009 - The Sámi Magic Drum
27 November 2008 – 18 January 2009 - Hadrian: Empire and Conflict
24 July – 27 October 2008 - China Landscape
3 May – 27 October 2008 - Conservation in focus
11 September – 26 October 2008 - Icons of Revolution: Mao badges then and now
10 April – 14 September 2008 - American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock
10 April – 7 September 2008 - Reflecting modern Japan: photobooks from the post-war period
5 June – 10 August 2008 - Fascination with Nature: Birds, flowers and insects in Chinese art
10 January – 5 August 2008 - Church and Emperor: An Ethiopian Crucifixion
6 March – 5 May 2008
- Between Tibet and Assam: cultural diversity in the eastern Himalayas
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2007
- The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army
13 September 2007 – 6 April 2008 - Inhuman Traffic: The Business of the Slave Trade
24 May 2007 – 6 April 2008 - Divine Cat: Speaking to the gods in ancient Egypt
8 November 2007 – 27 January 2008 - Korean Moon Jar
20 September – 21 October 2007 - Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan
19 July – 21 October 2007 - Ikebana: Living Flowers of Japan
5 July – 19 August 2007 - Gods, Guardians and Immortals: Chinese religious paintings
8 February – 5 August 2007 - The Caribbean before Columbus: Taíno Icons in the British Museum
3 May – 17 June 2007 - A New World: England’s first view of America
15 March – 17 June 2007 - Italian Prints 1875 – 1975
1 February – 3 June 2007 - Good impressions: image and authority in medieval seals
11 January – 20 May 2007 - La Bouche du Roi: an artwork by Romuald Hazoumé
22 March – 13 May 2007 - Fabric of a Nation: textiles and identity in modern Ghana
22 February – 10 April 2007
- The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army
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2006
- The past from above: through the lens of Georg Gerster
16 November 2006 – 11 February 2007 - Power and Taboo: Sacred objects from the eastern Pacific
28 September 2006 – 7 January 2007 - Myths of Bengal
14 September 2006 – 7 January 2007 - The art of peace: Paintings by the poet Tagore
14 September – 12 November 2006 - Durga: Creating an image of the goddess
12 August – 27 September 2006 - Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East
18 May – 2 September 2006 - Warren Cup
11 May – 2 July 2006 - Michelangelo drawings: closer to the master
23 March – 25 June 2006 - Michelangelo: money and medals
12 January – 25 June 2006 - Rembrandt: Three Crosses
28 February 2006 – 23 April 2006
- The past from above: through the lens of Georg Gerster
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2005
- Samurai to Manga: Japan across the centuries
15 December 2005 – 8 February 2006 - Samuel Palmer: vision and landscape
21 October 2005 – 22 January 2006 - Forgotten Empire: the world of Ancient Persia
9 September 2005 – 8 January 2006 - Iran before Islam: Propaganda and Religion AD 224 – 652
30 June 2005 – 8 January 2006 - 1980 – 2005 National Treasures: Icons to mark 25 years of the National Heritage Memorial Fund
14 October – 28 November 2005 - Kabuki Heroes on the Osaka Stage 1780 – 1830
30 June – 11 September 2005 - Africa Garden
8 May – 4 September 2005 - Wealth of Africa: 4,000 years of money and trade
20 January – 26 June 2005 - Ferdinand Columbus: Renaissance Collector
9 February – 5 June 2005
- Samurai to Manga: Japan across the centuries
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2003
- Buried Treasure: Finding Our Past
21 November 2003 – 14 March 2004 - Tibetan Legacy: Paintings from the Hahn Kwang-ho Collection
11 September – 23 November 2003 - Medicine Man: The forgotten museum of Henry Wellcome
26 June – 16 November 2003 - The Museum of the Mind: Art and memory in world cultures
15 April – 7 September 2003 - Celebrating the British Museum: John Maine's anniversary medal
15 January – 15 June 2003 - Kazari: Decoration and display in Japan 15th - 19th centuries
5 February – 13 April 2003
- Buried Treasure: Finding Our Past