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 ...

A museum that is due to reopen in the summer following a two-year £10.3m revamp is aiming for national status, its project ...

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 museum will mark the occasion with solo exhibitions of J.M.W. Turner and Tracey Emin in its building, designed by the ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...