With some items on display for the first time since 1900, the British Museum’s new show gives voice to a ‘fascinating, rarely ...

Charleston, SC, has long been a destination where history feels remarkably present. As our nation prepares for the 250th ...

Culture secretary says national institutions will receive £600m but they must extend influence outside London ...

The pamphlet, issued to American GIs about to travel overseas to Britain, was intended to ease any friction between the young ...

Samurai at The British Museum. 3 February-4 May 2026, £17.

British officials went to bed on Monday thinking they had averted a crisis. They woke up in the middle of an even deeper row ...

Passenger on first BA Concorde flight donates mementoes to museum - The aircraft flew from London to Bahrain on January 21 ...

A careful, minimal retrofit by Levitate transforms Dannatt's 1959 Vaughan College into a modern museum while preserving its mild brutalist character. Owen Hatherley reports ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

The British Museum and the National Portrait Gallery will receive £600 million each, but the investment comes with a responsibility to engage audiences outside the capital.

We look back on the London Zoo, which celebrates 200 years since the founding of the Zoological Society of London this year.

Renowned sculptor Karen Newman has been announced as the latest artist to be working on the tribute to Queen Elizabeth II.