Abandoned Tube station, British Museum, is said to be among London's most haunted and home to an Egyptian Priestess.

A disused coal mine in South Wales, now converted into a museum, has won Britain's lucrative Gulbenkian Prize for "keeping the story of British coal alive".

The museum will overhaul its record keeping, but its leaders said that millions of items still would not be individually documented.

The British Museum is facing renewed calls to return a huge moai statue to Easter Island, sparked by a social media campaign by Chilean activists.

A spokesperson for British Transport Police said: “We are aware of a video showing a fight taking place at Old Street Underground station.

The British Museum knows this better than anyone: as a former curator once pointed out, the Parthenon sculptures became “this great icon of Western art because they were removed”.

Read our privacy notice. A Jewish boy was taken to a hospital following a “racially motivated assault” at a north London Tube station, a Jewish security charity has reported.

The head of trustees at the British Museum said Saturday that the museum has recovered some of the 2,000 items believed to have been stolen by an insider, but admitted that the 264-year-old ...

The British Museum launched a public hotline on Tuesday asking for help to locate some 2,000 missing artefacts, revealing they were mostly ancient Greek and Roman gems and jewellery.

By digitizing their entire collection, the British Museum is diving deep into the process of documenting a fraught history of acquisition.

Tourists and Londoners alike were perplexed when the Bond Street tube station was temporarily renamed “Burberry Street” as part of a sponsorship deal with Transport for London.