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Special exhibitions

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  • Inspired by the east
    how the Islamic world influenced western art

    • Exhibition
    • 10 Oct 2019 - 26 Jan 2020
    Now open
    Portrait of Sultan Bayezid I. Oil on canvas, c. 1580
  • The BP exhibition

    Troy
    myth and reality

    • Exhibition
    • 21 Nov 2019 - 8 Mar 2020
    Now open
    Statue of dying Achilles

Free exhibitions and displays

  • Sir Stamford Raffles
    collecting in Southeast Asia 1811–1824

    • Exhibition
    • 19 Sep 2019 - 12 Jan 2020
    Free
    Two wooden masks
  • Pushing paper
    contemporary drawing from 1970 to now

    • Exhibition
    • 12 Sep 2019 - 12 Jan 2020
    Free
    Image of "Mountain", an artistic work by Minjung Kim

More free exhibitions and displays

  • Portrait of the artist
    Käthe Kollwitz

    • Exhibition
    • 12 Sep 2019 - 12 Jan 2020
    Free
    Lithograph self-portrait of Käthe Kollwitz
  • Currency in crisis
    German emergency money 1914–1924

    • Exhibition
    • 3 Oct 2019 - 29 Mar 2020
    Free
    Image of Notgeld 25 Pfennig banknote

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  • Bettany Hughes
    Lectures & discussions / Research event

    Michael Scott | What the Greeks did with the idea of Troy

    Broadcaster Michael Scott, Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, provocatively considers how the idea of...
    • £12
    • 17 Jan 2020
    Book Michael Scott | What the Greeks did with the idea of Troy now
  • Performance

    The Crick Crack Club presents The Ramayana

    Myths retold is a series of performances of some of the world’s greatest stories, presented in collaboration with the Crick Crack Club....
    • £10
    • 15 Dec 2019
    Book The Crick Crack Club presents The Ramayana now

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    South Asia eye-opener tour

    A free daily tour introducing objects from South Asia at the British Museum.
    • Free
    • 15 Dec 2019 - 14 Jun 2020
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    Ancient Egypt eye-opener tour

    A free daily tour introducing objects from Ancient Egypt at the British Museum.
    • Free
    • 15 Dec 2019 - 14 Jun 2020
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    China eye-opener tour

    A free daily tour introducing objects from China at the British Museum.
    • Free
    • 15 Dec 2019 - 7 Jun 2020
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UK touring exhibitions

  • Desire, love, identity: exploring LGBTQ histories

    • Exhibition
    On UK tour
    Selection of LGBTQ+ campaign badges from the 1970s onwards, mixed media
  • Hoards: a hidden history of ancient Britain

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    On UK tour
    © The Trustees of the British Museum
  • Nordic by Nature: modern design and prints

    • Exhibition
    On UK tour
    Aukusti Tuhka (1895-1973), Aurora borealis, 1917, woodcut

International touring exhibitions

  • Egyptian mummies: exploring ancient lives

    On world tour
    Wooden anthropoid inner-coffin of Nestawedjat:
  • An age of luxury: the Assyrians to Alexander

    On world tour
    Gold plaque originally inlaid with coloured stones Iran, 600 –400 BC
  • Ancient Greeks: athletes, warriors and heroes

    On world tour
    Hydria by The Alkmene Painter, Attica, 520-510 BC

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