London's world-famous British Museum was forced to partially close its doors at the end of last week, following a serious ...

A cyberattack caused by a former IT contractor forced the Biritsh Museum to close some exhibitions over the weekend.

An IT contractor who was dismissed last week trespassed into the museum and shut down several of our systems.' ...

London's Metropolitan Police Service has not yet commented on the incident. The British Museum is the latest cultural institution to experience technical sabotage in the country. In 2023, the British ...

A former British Museum contract worker has been arrested after allegedly shutting down its IT systems, the London-based institution said. Part of the museum’s permanent collection was closed on ...

Both permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions were closed at the weekend following the suspected sabotage ...

The new director of the British Museum has suggested the institution could pursue a “lending library” approach under his tenure – potentially paving the way for a return of the Parthenon ...

The Library also holds a significant collection of 3,500 drawings ... Jean Ingles and Frederick Sawyer in A Catalogue of the Richard Owen Collection of Palaeontological and Zoological Drawings in the ...

organised by the British Library in 1978. Since 2009 the diptych has been displayed in the museum’s Coptic corridor, which runs between the Egyptian mummies and the prints and drawings galleries.

New galleries, social areas and an expanded museum collection are planned for the space left when a library moves to its new location. Sunderland's Museum and Winter Gardens will have extra room when ...