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Pieces of paper laid out on the floor on top of each other.

27 Oct 2022 - 17 Sep 2023

Artists making books: poetry to politics

This intriguing new show explores the history of artists taking on the medium of books.

Black and white print showing map of Venice with chreub-like heads in clouds and boats in the water surrounding Venice.

23 Jan 2023 - 21 May 2023

Venice 1500: Jacopo de’ Barbari and the rise of printmaking

This display showcases the innovation and variety of printmaking in Venice during the High Renaissance.

Carved monolith made of monzonite with human facial features.

23 Feb 2023 - 26 Mar 2023

The Bakor Monoliths: endangered heritage

A display of elaborately carved ancestral stone sculptures found in the Ikom region of Cross River State in Nigeria.

A close up photograph of a silver griffin. The griffin has curled horns, a beak and gold details including its wings.

4 May 2023 - 13 Aug 2023

Luxury and power: Persia to Greece

Drawing on dazzling objects, this exhibition explores how luxury shaped the political landscape of Eurasia in the first millennium BC.

Ink and colour picture showing the head and shoulders of an elderly Chinese woman with her hair tied back. She is wearing green earings and a blue jacket decorated with gold leaves around the neck.

18 May 2023 - 8 Oct 2023

China’s hidden century

In a global first, the resilience and innovation of 19th-century China is revealed through the stories of its remarkable individuals.

Empty view of the Japanese gallery.

24 Mar 2023 - 28 Jul 2023

The way of tea

Discover the history of tea drinking and gathering in Japan in this free demonstration of a Japanese tea ceremony.

A figure walks through a tunnel.

£10
2 Apr 2023

Orpheus dismembered

Enter a subterranean dreamscape with storyteller Ben Haggarty and musician Jonah Brody.

Carved frieze showing battle scene between Amazons and the Greeks.

Lectures & discussions / Study days & courses

24 Apr 2023

The Bassai frieze

Discover the Bassai frieze and the delights of the Temple of Apollo with Peter Higgs, Senior Curator of Greece and Rome, British Museum.

Detail of pottery mug, showing the lower part in the form of a head of a bearded man.

Lectures & discussions / Study days & courses

5 May 2023

Fake news: Persia through ancient Greek eyes

Find out more about the ancient Persians and Greeks with Jamie Fraser, Curator for Ancient Levant and Anatolia, British Museum.

Brightly coloured watercolour and ink depiction of Rustam slaying a pink spotted dragon whose tail is coiled around Rustam's horse Rakhsh.

£10
7 May 2023

The Shahnameh – Book of Kings

Aerial artiste of the spoken word, Xanthe Gresham, dives headlong into the wild mythology of Persia with musician Arash Moradi.

A close up photograph of a woman wearing a blue dress underwater, with the sun on her face and her eyes closed.

£10
11 Jun 2023

Dauntless – Grace O'Malley, Pirate Queen

Debs Newbold gleefully delivers the boisterous, remarkable and inspirational story of her hero: Grainne ni Mhaille – Grace O'Malley.