To mark its bicentennial, the Brooklyn Museum highlights the pieces that have shaped its collection—and the foundational art ...

In the age of one-click purchases and same-day delivery, there exists a literary fortress in Decatur, Georgia that stands defiant against the digital tide—Book Nook, a place where books aren’t just ...

From the stone that unlocked hieroglyphics to towering statues and eerie mummies, the British Museum’s Ancient Egypt collection is a must-see for history lovers. ByDavid Nikel , Senior Contributor.

Not merely the higher divisions of the class, but the genera and species are all fully characterised, and to each species is appended a list of the specimens of it contained in the British Museum.

In 1954, Peter married Leonie Warschauer and had two daughters. He is now a volunteer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Listen to or read Holocaust survivors’ experiences, told in their ...

The hunt is on for long lost plant varieties – David Maxwell finds out why groups like the Irish Garden Plant Society and Plant Heritage want to find and save plants that can no longer be bought.

Large ornate paisleys sit resplendent on either corner ... British scholar Rosemary Crill, Italian ethnologist Paola Manfredi and author Pika Ghosh lead talks and walks. “The idea was to gather ...

British Council, in partnership with the UK's Department for Culture, Media, and Sport, hosted a closing ceremony for the Varendra Research Museum Training Programme on 25 February 2025, at the ...

We take a cab across Waterloo Bridge to the Imperial War Museum. We’ve been traversing ... More than 25,000 women were at work in the British construction industry by the 1940s, when the second ...

A papyrus collection in one corner of the museum detailed the everyday ... The Rosetta Stone, for example, which still sits in the British Museum, should be here. If anything, the Grand Egyptian ...

Paris-based studio Lina Ghotmeh Architecture has been selected to renovate the British Museum's Western Range galleries in London. Lina Ghotmeh Architecture, which is led by Lebanese architect ...

Shelley McNamara and I were in a corner of the Barbican Centre’s sprawling, shallow atrium talking about the subject of their most recent accolade, the Royal Institute of British Architects ...