The British Museum, the country’s most popular tourist attraction, was partially closed to the public on Saturday after an ...

A British man has written his name into the history books by setting a Guinness World Record for visiting the most museums in ...

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Andrea said at the time, 'Our goal with this exhibition is to open up the Museum Archives and showcase some of the immensely rich representations of British natural history that we have in our ...

"Part of the skull of the Piltdown man, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, has been declared a hoax by authorities at the British Natural History Museum," the article said.

Part of one the largest ever stegosaur fossil found in the UK is set to return to the town it was found in. The bone came ...

There are many people whose contributions to science remain unknown or ignored, particularly from the height of the British Empire and transatlantic slave trade. Our curator Miranda Lowe CBE explores ...

Ben Melham sets a new Guinness World Record of the “most museums visited in 24 hours” by completing the record in less than ...

What's more, it's free to visit. From the Rosetta Stone to the Parthenon Sculptures to Mesopotamian objects, the British Museum is a history buff's dream containing artifacts in the millions.