When construction began in Bloomsbury in 1823, the British Museum was said to be one of the biggest building sites in Europe. Two centuries later, it is destined to become a huge construction ...

Richard Owen, then superintendent of natural history collections, persuaded the trustees of the British Museum that a separate building was needed to accommodate their ever-growing catalogue of the ...

The British Museum had to close some of its doors to ... the museum’s disruption was caused by a contractor entering the building and accessing the IT network before being arrested.

The British Museum has been forced to partially close ... who was recently dismissed from the central London museum, got into the building and accessed the systems before being arrested.

The British Museum has selected Lebanese-born Lina Ghotmeh ... a metaphor for looking at a building’s past to support its reimagining. “We set out to find the best and I believe we’ve ...

The British Museum has announced a new £46.1 million construction consultancy ... The Western Range job will be the museum’s biggest building project since the 1820s, when work began on Robert ...

Osborne, chairman of the British Museum and chair of the judging panel, said: ‘When we moved into our current building 200 years ago the world was wowed. I believe they will be wowed again when ...

Source:Trustees of the British Museum The Western Range scheme is part of a decade-long renovation masterplan billed as one of the ‘most significant cultural redevelopment projects ever undertaken’.

She is said to have likened each new project to an archaeological dig, looking at a building’s past to support the ... Leather Workshop in Normandy and the Estonian National Museum in Tartu. British ...

Norway’s Kistefos Museum has named the eight architecture firms shortlisted to design a new building on its campus. The announcement comes after less than a year after the Kistefos Museum Foundation ...

The architect’s British Museum team includes the ... and many contain highly significant heritage building fabric,” the museum previously said in a statement. The Western Range refurbishment ...

Lina Ghotmeh aims to reimagine British Museum's galleries ... after she was selected to redesign a third of the London building’s gallery space. Her company Lina Ghotmeh Architecture (LGA ...