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A translator has reached a settlement and received an apology from the British Museum months after her work was used in a temporary exhibit without her permission or credit. Translations by Yilin ...
With 4.5 million works of art, how do you know where to start? Don’t worry, we’ll help. The British Museum is most famous for housing the Rosetta Stone since 1802.
The British Museum has settled a dispute with Canadian writer Yilin Wang, agreeing to reinstate her translations of Chinese-language poems by early-20th-century feminist revolutionary and poet Qiu ...
The British Museum Has Put 300,000 Images of Its Most Famous Artworks Online So You Can Play Around With Them There are now nearly 4.5 million objects in its digital archive, and 1.9 million ...
British Museum, London. Photo: Getty Images / Maremagnum The British Museum in London fired an employee after a number of items from its collection “were found to be missing, stolen or damaged." ...
The announcement comes after British Museum Chairman George Osborne disclosed in August that "around 2,000" artifacts had been stolen from the museum's storerooms by a suspected museum curator.
A large collection of print works by Pablo Picasso, set to go on display at The British Museum, will offer new insight into the life and mind of the most celebrated 20th century artist. With works ...
The museum has been tight-lipped regarding the exact number of missing works, though board chairman George Osborne told the BBC in August that the figure is around 2,000.
The British Museum is seeking the public's help as it works to locate and recover thousands of missing artifacts believed to have been stolen from their collections. After announcing in August ...
A new guild of artists from Nigeria's Benin City has offered to donate artworks to the British Museum in London as a way to encourage it to return the priceless Benin Bronzes that were looted from ...