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An abstract drawing in pencil of geometric shapes and structures, against a white foreground and a pale terracotta background

A Scot in St Ives: works by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
. Free .

Explore the work of a leading member of the 'St Ives School' of artists, who blazed a trail in British art from the 1940s–60s.

Bronze helmet lying on the earth.

Legion: life in the Roman army
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From family life on the fort to the brutality of the battlefield, experience Rome's war machine through the people who knew it best.

Sketches of the face of an elderly man, a figure, and the archway and pillar of a building float in diagonal rectangular stripes against a black background

Michelangelo: the last decades
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This major exhibition looks at the remarkable energy and creativity Michelangelo brought to the last 30 years of his life.

Three figures and calligraphy upon an ancient scroll.

Reopens July 2024

Admonitions of the instructress to the court ladies
. Reopens July 2024 .

A masterpiece of early Chinese figure painting, from the fifth to seventh century AD, displayed annually at the British Museum.

Close up of hieroglyphs inscribed into stone.

Study days & courses

£129
19 Apr 2024 – 3 May 2024

Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs: an introduction for beginners
. Sold out .

Learn to read Egyptian hieroglyphs through this four-week course and practice with original texts from objects in the collection.

Figurine in the shape of a mouse or rat stood on hind legs holding a cone-shaped instrument up to its mouth. The figurine is mounted on a square black stand and the surface of the sculpture appears to have oxidised and worn over time with a mostly green complexion.

Accessible event

£5
19 Apr 2024 – 31 May 2024

Audio-described tour of Legion: life in the Roman army
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Join former field archaeologist and Museum guide Rosie Fuller for an audio-described tour of the 'Legion' exhibition.

A flat landscape covered in mud, in the centre of which stands a huge wooden table with roots. The sky is filled with a dramatic thunderstorm.

£10
21 Apr 2024

Woyengi and the Medicine Woman
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Storyteller Jan Blake brings a rare slice of Nigerian myth to the British Museum stage.

Two pairs of hands covered in blue paint making handprints and finger-painting on a large white sheet of paper.

Study days & courses

£30
26 Apr 2024

Multi-sensory learning in museums
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Explore how to develop and deliver multi-sensory activities to support and enrich learning for students with additional needs in museums.

View of a long Museum gallery hall flanked by rectangular columns and plinths displaying objects on either side. In the centre foreground a metal sculpture of a dancing figure within a ring of fire stands tall.

Festivals & special events / Performance

27 Apr 2024

Dance through time
. Free .

Celebrate all things dance at this special event for International Dance Day (29 April) in collaboration with arts platform Psy-Sisters.

Fine-toned drawing showing three weeping women being turned into trees while a nude male figure reclines on the ground to the left.

Accessible event

£5
3 May 2024 – 7 Jun 2024

Deaf-led BSL tour of Michelangelo: the last decades
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Join Edward Richards for a British Sign Language (BSL) tour of the 'Michelangelo: the last decades' exhibition.

Hand-coloured woodblock print depicting the goddess Chinnamastā wreaking havoc and destruction. The decapitated goddess stands upon the god of love and his wife, who are making love upon a lotus, and brandishes a knife in one hand and her severed head in the other. Three streams of blood gush from her neck: one falls in the mouth of her own severed head and the other two into the mouths of her attendants.

£10
12 May 2024

The Tantric Ten
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Expect life, death, creation, destruction and sacrifice, all in search of cosmic truth within this captivating performance.

A damaged rectangular sandstone tombstone depicting Regina of Arbeia.

Accessible event

£5
24 May 2024

Deaf-led BSL tour of Legion: life in the Roman army
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Join Alan Murray for a British Sign Language (BSL) tour of the Legion exhibition and explore life in settled Roman military communities.