Ilê Sartuzi's short-lived heist involving a 17th-century coin draws parallels to the recent scandal over the theft of thousands of items from the museum’s collection

Fischer, who resigned after a thefts scandal at the British Museum, has been announced as the founding director of the new institution, which is expected to open in 2026

George Osborne’s comments were made on Thief at the British Museum, which has been released both as a one-off television show and a radio series

The institution’s chair George Osborne has described the total number of items returned as a result that “few expected”, though more than 800 remain missing

The Danish specialist Ittai Gradel, who first raised alarm about thefts of antiquities from the London museum, and earlier returned 61 gems bought separately on eBay, approached the Thorvaldsens Museum to help in repatriating a second, larger set of stolen pieces

Art detective Christopher Marinello believes more action is needed after an investigation by the Independent newspaper revealed thefts at the Imperial War Museum, Natural History Museum and others

The museum's former acting head of the Greece and Rome department, Peter Higgs, is facing legal action after being accused of stealing up to 2,000 objects

Cullinan, currently the director of the National Portrait Gallery, faces an array of challenges in rebuilding the oldest national museum in the world’s reputation

Emergency repairs are being made to several galleries, just over a year after Assyrian reliefs were threatened by serious condensation

Mark Jones also says BP deal is the ‘right one’ and announces recovered items show

The 32 items held in the collections of the two UK museums were taken during wars in the 19th century

Successful candidate will have their work cut out for them to restore the institution's reputation after last year's theft scandal

From the British Museum thefts to the consequences in art and heritage of the Israel-Hamas war

The Independent Collection Security Review urges the museum to take urgent action, including fully recording the collection and tough management changes

The annual Christmas cracker joke competition by the British TV channel Gold took a swipe at the theft scandal that rocked the institution

From the theft of artefacts at the British Museum to a hammer attack on Velázquez’s “The Rokeby Venus”

The review team will now liaise with the police for the criminal investigation

George Osborne, the chairman of the trustees, says the thefts began over two decades ago

George Osborne, the museum's chair, and the UK culture department are among those in the spotlight in the wake of Roman and Greek objects being stolen

Discussions about the return of the ancient Greek artefacts have likely slipped down the British Museum's list of priorities. Here, Alexander Herman, the author of a just-published book on the subject, tells us why the museum can ill afford to neglect the matter for long

The museum has also stated that 300 further items are “due to be returned imminently”, and that it has enlisted an international taskforce

The National Gallery of Victoria’s Pharaoh exhibition will open next year with 500 pieces from the London institution's permanent collection

The former V&A director was keeper of coins and medal at the embattled London institution

The treasures singled out so far include the Mold Gold Cape and Moel Hebog shield

Plus, the Sāo Paulo biennial and Chaïm Soutine in Düsseldorf

The embattled institution is yet to announce an interim director after the resignation of Hartwig Fischer

Art publications such as The Art Newspaper could offer to publish free-to-access illustrated lists of the 1,500 or more artefacts, says art adviser Ivan Macquisten

Article in The Global Times also criticises the UK’s ‘bloody, ugly, and shameful colonial history’

To make the British Museum fit for the 21st century it must create a comprehensive publicly accessible database of its entire collection, argues Dan Hicks, curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford

Other Greek treasures would come to London in exchange for a loan of the contested sculptures