Exhibition archive
Find out about past exhibitions held at the British Museum.
2009
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
Garden and Cosmos: The
Royal Paintings of Jodhpur
28 May – 11 October 2009
Gamelan: Music of
Java
21 May – 12 July 2009
Dazzling the enemy:
shields from the Pacific
14 May – 16 August 2009
India
Landscape
1 May – 11 October 2009
The splendour of Isfahan:
coins from Iran
5 March – 5 July 2009
The Intimate
Portrait: drawings, miniatures and pastels from Ramsay to
Lawrence
5 March – 31 May 2009
Shah 'Abbas: The Remaking of
Iran
19 February – 14 June 2009
Takhti: a modern Iranian
hero
19 February – 19 April 2009
Treasures from
Shanghai: ancient Chinese bronzes and jades
30 January – 27 March 2009
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
Sámi Magic Drum
27 November 2008 – 18 January 2009
Statuephilia
4 October 2008
– 25 January 2009
British sculptors' drawings:
Moore to Gormley
25 September 2008 – 25
January 2009
Designing change:
coins of Elizabeth II
18 September 2008 – 1 March 2009
Hadrian: Empire and
Conflict
24 July– 26 October
2008
Conservation in
focus
11 September– 26 October
2008
Reflecting
modern Japan: photobooks from the post-war
period
5 June – 10 August
2008
China
Landscape
3 May– 27 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
Church and
Emperor: an Ethiopian crucifixion
6
March – 5 May 2008
Fascination with Nature: Birds, flowers and
insects in Chinese art
10 January –
5 August 2008
2007
Divine Cat:
speaking with the gods in ancient Egypt
8
November 2007 – 27 January 2008
Korean Moon Jar
20 September – 21 October 2007
The First
Emperor: China's Terracotta Army
13 September 2007 – 6 April 2008
Crafting Beauty in
Modern Japan
19 July – 21 October 2007
Ikebana: Living Flowers of
Japan
5 July – 19 August 2007
Inhuman Traffic: The
Business of the Slave Trade
24 May 2007 – 6 April 2008
The Caribbean before
Columbus: Taíno Icons in the British Museum
3 May
– 17 June 2007
La Bouche du Roi: An
artwork by Romuald Hazoumé
22 March – 13 May 2007
A New World: England's
first view of America
15 March – 17 June 2007
Fabric of a
Nation: textiles and identity in modern Ghana
22 February – 10 April 2007
Gods, Guardians and
Immortals: Chinese religion paintings
8 February – 22 July 2007
Italian Prints 1875
– 1975
1 February – 3 June 2007
Good impressions:
image and authority in medieval seals
11 January
– 20 May 2007
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 – 3 January 2007
Myths of Bengal
14 September
2006 – 7 January 2007
Art of peace: Paintings by the poet Tagore
14
September – 12 November 2006
Durga: creating an image of a goddess
12
August – 27 September 2006
Word into art: Artists of
the modern Middle East
18 May – 3 September
2006
The Warren Cup
11 May – 2 July 2006
Michelangelo
drawings: closer to the master
23 March – 25
June 2006
Rembrandt: Three
Crosses
28 February – 23 April 2006
Michelangelo: money
and medals
12 January – 25 June 2006
2005
Samurai to Manga: Japan across
the centuries
15 December 2005 – 3 February 2006
Samuel Palmer: vision and landscape
21
October 2005 – 22 January 2006
1980–2005 National
Treasures:
Icons to mark 25 years of the National Heritage Memorial
Fund
14 October – 28 November 2005
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
Kabuki Heroes on the Osaka Stage 1780 –
1830
30 June – 11 September 2005
Africa Garden
8
May – 4 September 2005
Ferdinand Columbus:
Renaissance Collector
9 February – 5 June
2005
Wealth of Africa: 4,000
years of money and trade
20 January – 26 June
2005
2004
Sudan: ancient
treasures
9 September 2004 – 9 January
2005
Status symbols:
identity and belief on modern badges
22 July 2004
– 16 January 2005
Public image: Portraits
on coins and medals
22 January – 18 July
2004
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
Kazari: Decoration and display in Japan 15th-19th
centuries
5 February – 13 April 2003
Celebrating the British
Museum: John Maine's anniversary medal
15 January
– 15 June 2003
1972
Treasures of
Tutankhamun
30 March – 30
December 1972