The New York Times

British Museum Announces Plan to Stop Thefts

The museum will overhaul its record keeping, but its leaders said that millions of items still would not be individually documented. By Alex Marshall Two months after it announced the firing of a ...
The Art Newspaper

A brief history of the British Museum's central London home

The redesign of the Western Range of the British Museum, announced earlier this year, is the latest stage of a 272-year-long ...
Observer

Artist Hew Locke Confronts Colonialism at the British Museum

Hew Locke visits the British Museum in preparation for his exhibition. Richard Cannon “What have we here?” is the fruit of two years of Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke’s research at the British ...
Augusta Free Press

War crime and other redundancies

– Sir Arthur “Bomber” Harris, commander of the British Air Force in World War II If you visit the British War Museum you can still hear the voice of Bomber Harris defending his decisions to order the ...
Los Angeles Times

Director of British Museum steps down amid controversy over thefts of ancient items

LONDON — The director of the British Museum said Friday that he would step down immediately amid investigations into the theft or disappearance of hundreds of items from its massive collection, ...