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Mind your money: money matters
Heidi Hinder, artist and designer Money. It doesn’t grow on trees and can’t buy you love or happiness, but apparently it makes the world go round. The subject of so many songs and clichés, money...
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Sharp of teeth: crocodiles in the ancient Sahara
Jorge de Torres, Project Cataloguer, African Rock Art Image Project, British Museum For many people crocodiles represent the ultimate predator, a merciless killer which hides in the water to prey on...
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A medieval alchemical book reveals new secrets
Bink Hallum, Arabic Scientific Manuscripts Curator, British Library Marcel Marée, Assistant Keeper, Department of Ancient Egypt & Sudan, British Museum A page from the 18th-century copy of...
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Study, conservation and display of a rare pair of curtains from Late Antique...
Project curator Amandine Mérat gives us an overview of the historical background of the curtains, whilst conservators Anna Harrison and Monique Pullan describe work carried out in order to prepare them...
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Ten years of the Asahi Shimbun Displays: focussing in on objects in focus
Laura Purseglove, Project Assistant and David Francis, Interpretation Officer, British Museum 2015 saw the ten-year anniversary of the Asahi Shimbun Displays at the British Museum. Located in Room 3,...
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How do you put on a torc?
Julia Farley, Curator, European Iron Age collection, British Museum As curator of the Celts exhibition, I get to spend a lot of time showing people wonderful Iron Age treasures. Some of my favourites...
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Copts of the Nile: the Coptic community in Egypt today through the lens of...
Sarah Johnson, Curator of Islamic Collections, British Museum The exhibition Egypt: faith after the pharaohs, examines religious identity in the first millennium AD, when Egypt became first a majority...
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Faith after the pharaohs: Egyptian papyri conservation
Bridget Leach, Conservator: Pictorial Art, British Museum Examination under the microscope (prior to repair) of the Egypt Exploration Society’s papyri. In preparation for the Egypt: faith after the...
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Exploring the First Gaster Bible: a British Library Hebrew manuscript
Ilana Tahan, M.Phil. OBE, Lead Curator of Hebrew & Christian Orient Studies, British Library The Hebrew Bible, commonly termed in the Christian West as ‘The Old Testament’ but known to the Jews as...
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The makers of Codex Sinaiticus
Cillian O’Hogan, Research Fellow, University of Waterloo, formerly Curator of Classical and Byzantine Studies, British Library Most books from Graeco-Roman antiquity only survive in fragmentary form –...
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An interview with manga artist Nakamura Hikaru
In the final of our three interviews to celebrate the Asahi Shimbun Display Manga now: three generations An Van Camp, Curator of Dutch and Flemish drawings and prints, interviews the up-and-coming...
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An interview with manga artist Hoshino Yukinobu
In the second of our interviews to celebrate The Asahi Shimbun Display Manga now: three generations Nicole Rousmaniere, the IFAC Handa Curator of Japanese Arts, interviews the manga artist Hoshino...
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An interview with manga artist Chiba Tetsuya
The Asahi Shimbun Display Manga now: three generations, explores manga’s diverse appeal through specially commissioned pieces by three contemporary manga artists. To celebrate the display, the...
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Discovering hidden Celtic creatures
Jane Findlay, Head of Schools and Young Audiences Education and Emilia McKenzie, Education Manager: Digital Content, British Museum Our newly-opened special exhibition Celts: art and identity has been...
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‘Wayfinding’: The Bridget Riley Art Foundation and Central Saint Martins at...
Sarah Jaffray, Project Officer: Bridget Riley Art Foundation, British Museum A new display entitled ‘Wayfinding’ has been put up in Room 90 as part of the Bridget Riley Art Foundation (BRAF) Programme...
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Who were the Celts?
Julia Farley, Curator, European Iron Age collection, British Museum As lead curator of the project, I am extremely excited that the exhibition Celts: art and identity at the British Museum is now...
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The art of the masters: drawing in silver and gold
An Van Camp, Curator, Dutch and Flemish drawings and prints, British Museum Our latest Prints and Drawings exhibition recently opened in Room 90: Drawing in silver and gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns....
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Indigenous Australia: an artist’s story
Abe Muriata, Girramay man and master basket weaver from North Queensland, writes on visiting the British Museum for the opening of the BP exhibition Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation....
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Indigenous Australian rock art: Injalak Hill, Gunbalanya
The artists from Injalak Arts and Crafts Centre, Gunbalanya, worked closely with the British Museum on the BP exhibition Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation. Here they write on the importance...
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Stories of the past and present: Indigenous Australia
Tynan Waring, Indigenous Visitor Services Host at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, spent three weeks at the British Museum during the BP exhibition Indigenous Australia: enduring...
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