The last time we had the opportunity to see the British Museum collection through the eyes of a contemporary artist, it was through those of Grayson Perry, with Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman in 2011.

The Museum collection offers insights into gender diversity from ancient times to the present day highlighting that gender fluidity and diversity have always been integral to human experience. In ...

The British Museum was founded with a collection left to 'curious' and interested people. 271 years on an exhibition touring the UK, and now approaching its final week in Wales, explores what it means ...

Discover the rise, influence and decline of Stonehenge across 6,000 years of history. Lying some 150km west of London in the Wiltshire countryside, Stonehenge is perhaps the world's most awe-inspiring ...

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KS2 History: the achievements of the earliest civilisations – ancient Egypt. The ancient Egyptians believed in many different gods and goddesses. Each one had their own role to play in maintaining ...

English artist known for her 'paper mosaiks', Mary Delany (née Granville 1700–1788) lived in England and Ireland. In her 70s, Delany invented a form of paper-cutting or decoupage, which she called her ...

Visit Room 23 to enjoy many sculptures that are Roman versions of Greek originals. During the Roman conquest of the Mediterranean in the second and first centuries BC, Greek sculpture was both admired ...

Travel back through 3,000 years of Egyptian history and come face-to-face with the Statues of Ramesses II and Amenhotep III. The objects in the Egyptian sculpture gallery represent three millennia of ...

This gallery explores the cultures of China and South Asia through a range of magnificent objects. One half of the gallery presents the histories of China from 5000 BC to the present: from iconic Ming ...

Room 52 celebrates Iran, which was a major centre of ancient culture. Iran was rich in valuable natural resources, especially metals, and played an important role in the development of ancient Middle ...

We also have dates in your diary for our ever thought-provoking and wide-ranging free displays on subjects from Ed Ruscha's roads and insects to the women silversmiths from Oman. Plus, if you can't ...