In some cases, this involves collectors agreeing to donate items to the museum so staff can assess. A senior curator, Peter Higgs, is accused by the British Museum of stealing, damaging ...

Dr Peter Higgs was a senior curator in the museum's Greek and Rome department. He has denied all the allegations. British Museum staff inspect some of the newly recovered gems Due to the lack of ...

The new director of the British Museum ... allegations the museum’s leadership at the time had ignored warnings that an ...

Peter Higgs, a giant of British science who came up with the idea of the Higgs boson particle, has died aged 94. He was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 2013 for his revolutionary work ...

In the wake of the British Museum's recent slew of controversies, its recently installed director, Nicholas Cullinan, former ...

Except for one outlier: the Higgs boson. Named after Peter Higgs, the British physicist who predicted its existence in the 1960s, this particle is the final piece of the puzzle, and it’s a doozy. The ...

Fun for all the family whatever the weather! Explore the largest collection of historic British cars. Take a walk down the 'Time Road' and discover how both motoring and family life has changed ...

Locke, who over a 30-year career has explored the cultural baggage of Britain’s colonial history, here turns curator, to delve into the British Museum’s collections and unearth stories that ...

Few artists have legacies so mammoth their very name could be considered synonymous with the music industry, but then again, ...

Quincy Jones, the multi-talented music titan whose vast legacy ranged from producing Michael Jackson's historic "Thriller" ...

The British Museum is both an architectural beauty and a trove of some of the world's most noted antiquities. In fact, many travelers say it's the best museum in all of London. What's more ...