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Majority back British Museum exhibit on transatlantic slave trade

New poll finds 53% of Britons support permanent exhibition on Britain’s role in slave trade at British Museum

The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2024

‘It’s quite a thing to do a show here and openly use the word looting’: artist Hew Locke on decolonising the British Museum

After his triumphant Tate installation, The Procession, the artist is preparing a radical exhibition tackling Britain’s imperial past. He talks about why we must return plundered artefacts and rethink attitudes to heritage

The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2024

Man jailed for 'upskirting' woman at British Museum after being spotted by off-duty police officer

A sex offender has been jailed after an off-duty police officer caught him ‘upskirting’ a woman at the British Museum.

Evening Standard · Aug 30, 2024

What Should Canadian Museums Do about Their Stolen African Art?

Repatriation efforts were stymied for decades. But the problem can no longer be stalled

The Walrus · Jan 8, 2024

What visitors to the British Museum think should happen to the Elgin marbles

A diplomatic row erupted after Rishi Sunak cancelled a meeting with the Greek prime minister who wanted to discuss the statues

The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2023

Elgin Marbles: UK says any loan return to Greece would be 'slippery slope'

No10 says Rishi Sunak cancelled talks with Greek PM for allegedly breaking a promise not to raise the long-running row

Evening Standard · Nov 27, 2023

Rishi Sunak to reject Greek leader’s appeal for return of Elgin Marbles

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis says he will raise issue in meetings Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer

The Independent UK · Nov 27, 2023

Viral series about Chinese teapot escaping from British Museum to become film

Series with 370m views echoes Chinese state media calls for return of cultural relics

The Guardian - UK · Sep 20, 2023

British Museum director resigns, admits to failings in theft investigation

Museum’s director Hartwig Fischer says that he did not take warning of theft from museum collection seriously enough.

Al Jazeera · Aug 26, 2023

Monday briefing: Are the vanished British Museum relics the tip of the iceberg?

In today’s newsletter: As police in the UK launch an investigation into what happened to missing artefacts, an art detective explains why such thefts are so difficult to prevent

The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2023