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The British Museum

Exhibition

Nordic noir: works on paper from Edvard Munch to Mamma Andersson

9 Oct 2025-22 Mar 2026

Exhibition

Hawaiʻi: a kingdom crossing oceans

15 Jan-25 May 2026

Upcoming

Exhibition
Samurai
3 Feb-4 May 2026
Talks & Events
Artist talk: Anna Zimmerman
6 Mar 2026, 6.30-7.30pm

Past

2025
Talks & Events
Artist talk: Vanessa Baird
5 Dec 2025
Talks & Events
Artist talk: John Kørner
28 Nov 2025
Talks & Events
Artist talk: Sverre Malling and Jeff Olsson
31 Oct 2025
Exhibition
Ancient India: living traditions
22 May-19 Oct 2025
Exhibition
Display | Colour and line: Watteau drawings
15 May-14 Sep 2025
Talks & Events
ONLINE— Curator's introduction to Hiroshige: artist of the open road
15 May 2025
Exhibition
Hiroshige: artist of the open road
1 May-7 Sep 2025
Exhibition
Mumbai + London: new perspectives on the ancient world
24 Apr 2025-11 Jan 2026
2024
Exhibition
Picasso: printmaker
7 Nov 2024-30 Mar 2025
Talks & Events
Hew Locke in conversation
1 Nov 2024
Exhibition
Hew Locke: what have we here?
17 Oct 2024-9 Feb 2025
Exhibition
Silk Roads
26 Sep 2024-23 Feb 2025
Exhibition
Display | New life: Rembrandt and children
14 May-6 Oct 2024
Exhibition
Michelangelo: the last decades
2 May-28 Jul 2024
Exhibition
Display | Contemporary collecting: David Hockney to Cornelia Parker
25 Apr-29 Sep 2024
Exhibition
Legion: life in the Roman army
1 Feb-23 Jun 2024
2023
Exhibition
Burma to Myanmar
2 Nov 2023-11 Feb 2024
Exhibition
Drawing attention emerging artists in dialogue
27 Oct 2023-24 Aug 2024
Exhibition
Display | Gesture and line: four post-war German and Austrian artists
5 Oct 2023-1 Apr 2024
Exhibition
Display | Ed Ruscha: roads and insects
19 Sep 2023-28 Jan 2024
Exhibition
China’s hidden century
18 May-8 Oct 2023
Exhibition
Luxury and power: Persia to Greece
4 May-13 Aug 2023
2022
Exhibition
Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt
13 Oct 2022-19 Feb 2023
Exhibition
Art on paper since 1960: the Hamish Parker collection
22 Sep 2022-5 Mar 2023
Exhibition
Feminine power: the divine to the demonic
19 May-25 Sep 2022
Exhibition
The woodpecking factory: Victorian illustrations by the Brothers Dalziel
17 May-4 Sep 2022
Exhibition
The world of Stonehenge
17 Feb-17 Jul 2022
2021
Exhibition
Peru: a journey in time
11 Nov 2021-20 Feb 2022
Exhibition
Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything
30 Sep 2021-30 Jan 2022
Exhibition
Thomas Becket: Murder and the making of a saint
20 Jun-22 Aug 2021
Exhibition
Nero: The man behind the myth
27 May-24 Oct 2021
Exhibition
Reflections: Contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa
17 May-15 Aug 2021
2010
Exhibition
Mexican traditions & popular culture in Posada’s time
25 Feb 2010-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
The iconographies of identity
11 Feb 2010-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Songs of life and hope
5 Feb 2010-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Art and revolution in Mexico 1910–1950
4 Feb 2010-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Frida Kahlo : Viva la Vida
30 Jan 2010-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Frida Kahlo : Viva la Vida
29 Jan 2010-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
The corpse of Emiliano Zapata
28 Jan 2010-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Songs of the Revolution
22 Jan 2010-1 Jan 2000
2009
Exhibition
Wounds, happiness and distance
16 Nov 2009-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
In praise of impurity
13 Nov 2009-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Day of the Dead
1 Nov 2009-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Revolution on paper : Mexican prints 1910-1960
22 Oct 2009-5 Apr 2010
Exhibition
Gender, Wars and Chadors
12 Oct 2009-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Moctezuma : Aztec Ruler
24 Sep 2009-24 Jan 2010
Exhibition
Medals of Dishonour
25 Jun-27 Sep 2009
Exhibition
Garden and Cosmos : The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur
28 May-23 Aug 2009
Exhibition
Gamelan : music of Java
21 May-12 Jul 2009
Exhibition
Dazzling the enemy : shields from the Pacific
14 May-16 Aug 2009
Exhibition
India Landscape
1 May-27 Sep 2009
Exhibition
The splendour of Isfahan : coins from Iran
5 Mar-5 Jul 2009
2000
Exhibition
Garden and Cosmos : The Royal Paintings of Jodhp
1 Jan 2000-11 Oct 2009

Nearby

Brink
Herald St | Museum St
until 31 Jan
Soumya Netrabile: A Stone in my Pocket
Union Pacific, WC1
until 21 Feb
Condo 2026— hosting Kurimanzutto, Mexico City/New York and CORPUS, Cambridge
Phillida Reid
until 14 Feb
Anthony Banks
Cedric Bardawil
until 31 Jan
I Couldn't Stand By: Youth, Violence and Peace – An Exhibition of Young Hope
SOAS Gallery
until 21 Mar
Imminent Death: Roger Hilton
Vardaxoglou Gallery
until 28 Feb
Edward George: Black Atlas
The Warburg Institute
until 31 Jan
A Formula For How To Find Love - Victoria Cantons
Mimosa House
until 28 Mar
ANALOGUE OF A STRAIGHT LINE - Lea Andrews, Steven Pippin, Oliver Tirre, Alison Wilding
Anthony Wilkinson
until 7 Feb
Listening to Objects
Maximillian William
until 28 Feb
Jacob Fenton: Notable Figures
Josh Lilley
until 28 Feb
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2025
National Portrait Gallery
until 8 Feb
Juan Uslé: En la pared del mar
Frith Street Gallery
until 7 Feb
Expecting: Birth, Belief and Protection
Wellcome Collection
until 19 Apr
Condo 2026— Sadie Coles HQ hosting sans titre, Paris
Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street
until 14 Feb
Wayne McGregor: Infinite Bodies
Somerset House
until 22 Feb
The Barber in London: Highlights from a Remarkable Collection
The Courtauld
until 28 Jun
Hannah Claus: tsi iotnekahtentiónhatie - éntie nonkwá:ti - where the waters flow - south shore
Canada Gallery
until 7 Feb
Mario Merz
Sprovieri
until 13 Mar

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