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The British Museum’s mysterious domed Reading Room has officially reopened to the public
Time Out· 5 days agoThe British Museum is every history buff’s dream, but there’s likely still one part of the...
Ex-British Museum chief wants foreigners to pay to see UK cultural treasures
Euronews via Yahoo News UK· 6 days agoThe British Museum, Tate Modern and Science Museum are among the UK cultural institutions being...
Is it time to turn the British Museum into the world’s great lending library? | Tim Adams
The Guardian· 2 days agoIt’s liberating to sense how a government whose primary concern is not fighting culture wars might...
Could the British Museum soon start charging tourists to enter?
Time Out· 4 days agoThe British Museum’s former interim director, Sir Mark Jones, has called for a £20 entry fee to be...
Freeloading tourists are taking embattled British taxpayers for fools
Daily Telegraph· 6 days agoVisitors to our national museums and galleries can enter, walk through grand halls, view paintings,...
‘Excalibur’ sword lodged in rock for 1,300 years mysteriously disappears
Metro· 5 days agoIn another bizarre theft, a set of rare 19th century Russian books worth more than £434,000 were...
Object more than 300 years old found in Norfolk field declared as treasure
EDP24 - Eastern Daily Press· 7 days agoAn inquest at Norfolk Coroner's Court held by Samantha Goward heard that inspectors at the British Museum "accepted the finding as treasure". The specific ...
Anglo-Saxons may have fought in northern Syrian wars, say experts
The Guardian· 4 days agoSt John Simpson, a senior British Museum curator, and Helen Gittos, an Oxford scholar, have concluded that some of the exotic items excavated at Sutton ...
Maria Balshaw on the roles of museums today and what Tate’s sponsorship red line is
The Art Newspaper· 6 days agoMaria Balshaw has been the director of Tate since 2017, having previously been leader of the...
School where children go mudlarking and build Great Wall of China gets top rating
The Ham&High Network· 5 days agoThey praised pupils' "excellent" behaviour and the "careful consideration" given to their well-being, which includes spending time with the school dog, Horace. Inspectors were impressed with ...