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Special exhibitions

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  • The BP exhibition

    Troy
    myth and reality

    • Exhibition
    • 21 Nov 2019 - 8 Mar 2020
    Final weeks
    Statue of dying Achilles
  • Tantra
    enlightenment to revolution

    • Exhibition
    • 23 Apr 2020 - 26 Jul 2020
    Coming soon
    Painted clay figure of Kali
  • The Citi exhibition

    Arctic
    culture and climate 

    • Exhibition
    • 28 May 2020 - 23 Aug 2020
    Coming soon
    Wind has pushing floating ice near the shorefast ice making fishing difficult.

More special exhibitions

  • Opening October 2020

    Thomas Becket

    • Exhibition
    • 15 Oct 2020 - 14 Feb 2021
    Coming soon
    Blue and gold casket with six figures on one side.

Free exhibitions and displays

  • Currency in crisis
    German emergency money 1914–1924

    • Exhibition
    • 3 Oct 2019 - 29 Mar 2020
    Free
    Image of Notgeld 25 Pfennig banknote
  • Living with art
    Picasso to Celmins

    • Exhibition
    • 14 Jan 2020 - 5 Mar 2020
    Free
    Naked figure standing face to face with a snake.

Free exhibitions and displays

  • French Impressions
    prints from Manet to Cézanne

    • Exhibition
    • 20 Feb 2020 - 9 Aug 2020
    Free
    Lithograph portrait of Berthe Morisot
  • Piranesi drawings
    visions of antiquity

    • Exhibition
    • 20 Feb 2020 - 9 Aug 2020
    Free
    Facade of an antique building with columns, heads and sphinxes. Pen and brown ink
  • Edmund de Waal
    library of exile

    • Exhibition
    • 12 Mar 2020 - 8 Sep 2020
    Coming soon
    Edmund de Waal (b. 1964), psalm, I (detail). 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian. Photo by Hélène Binet.

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    Study days & courses

    City Lit Classics Day 2020: Journeys into Troy

    The British Museum's annual City Lit Classics Day in 2020 will offer lectures exploring the interpretations and reinterpretations of Troy...
    • £59
    • 29 Feb 2020
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  • Audience watching a film at the British Museum BP lecture theater.
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    Maiden (2018) followed by Q&A with Tracy Edwards

    To celebrate Women’s History Month 2020 take to the sea with a special film screening of Maiden (2019), the incredible, against-all-odds...
    • £10
    • 14 Mar 2020
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    Around the world in 90 minutes

    Explore the British Museum's most famous treasures.
    • £14
    • 28 Feb 2020 - 18 Oct 2020
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    Ancient Egypt eye-opener tour

    A free daily tour introducing objects from Ancient Egypt at the British Museum.
    • Free
    • 25 Feb 2020 - 23 Aug 2020
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UK touring exhibitions

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  • Nordic by Nature: modern design and prints

    • Exhibition
    • 4 May 2019 - 17 May 2020
    On UK tour
    Aukusti Tuhka (1895-1973), Aurora borealis, 1917, woodcut
  • Pushing paper: contemporary drawing from 1970 to now

    • Exhibition
    • 29 Feb 2020 - 6 Mar 2021
    On UK tour
    Minjung Kim (b. 1962), Mountain, 2009, ink on hanji paper. © The Trustees of the British Museum. Reproduced by permission of the artist
  • Living with art
    Picasso to Celmins

    • Exhibition
    • 14 Jan 2020 - 20 Feb 2021
    On UK tour
    Naked figure standing face to face with a snake.

International touring exhibitions

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  • 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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