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97 events

Lithograph self-portrait of Käthe Kollwitz

Portrait of the artist: Käthe Kollwitz

This show celebrates the humanity and enduring impact of one of the most influential 20th-century printmakers.

12 Sep 2019 - 12 Jan 2020

Image of "Mountain", an artistic work by Minjung Kim

Pushing paper: contemporary drawing from 1970 to now

Celebrating the power of contemporary drawing, this display explores how artists have pushed the boundaries of the medium.

12 Sep 2019 - 12 Jan 2020

Two wooden masks

Sir Stamford Raffles collecting in Southeast Asia 1811–1824

This exhibition presents the rich variety of objects from Java and Sumatra collected by Sir Stamford Raffles.

19 Sep 2019 - 12 Jan 2020

Image of Notgeld 25 Pfennig banknote

Currency in crisis: German emergency money 1914–1924

This exhibition reveals how this temporary currency responded to a national crisis with designs commenting on society and politics.

3 Oct 2019 - 29 Mar 2020

Portrait of Sultan Bayezid I. Oil on canvas, c. 1580

Inspired by the East: how the Islamic world influenced Western art

This exhibition charts the fascinating history of cultural and artistic interactions between East and West.

10 Oct 2019 - 26 Jan 2020

Statue of dying Achilles

Troy: myth and reality

Explore the story of a great city, plunged into a 10-year conflict over the abduction of the most beautiful woman in the world.

21 Nov 2019 - 8 Mar 2020

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

Lectures & discussions / Research event

Troy and Britannia: myth, legend and tradition

Sam Moorhead examines how the myth of Troy reached Roman Britain and the influence this had on inhabitants, literature and traditions.

£5
9 Jan 2020

In Search of Black History speakers

Lectures & discussions

In Search of Black History with Bonnie Greer OBE

To celebrate the launch of the Audible series In Search of Black History, British Museum Trustee Emerita, playwright, novelist and critic...

£12
10 Jan 2020

Lectures & discussions / Research event

Curator's introduction to Inspired by the east: how the Islamic world influenced western art

Exhibition co-curator Julia Tugwell, British Museum, gives a 45-minute illustrated introduction to the exhibition Inspired by the east: how...

£5
11 Jan 2020

Omarivs Ioseph Filivs Dinæ

Lectures & discussions / Research event

Collecting Palestine

Omar Joseph Nasser-Khoury (Omarivs Ioseph Filivs Dinæ) is an anti-fashion designer from Palestine who has been working on updating the...

£5
16 Jan 2020

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