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🏛 Explore 2 million years of human history

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A landscape of 2,000 years of Korean creativity 🌄 The ‘Korea’ exhibition is now open. Take a panoramic journey through Korean visual and material culture, exploring works spanning from 300 BC to the present day. Featuring many National Treasures - objects so designated for their exceptionally high quality and historical significance - with most of the objects on display never before seen in the UK.    Supported by @nationalmuseumofkorea Corporate partner @samsung 🖼️ Sun, Moon and Five Peaks (detail), © National Museum of Korea. 01 Oct 2026

What does Korean creativity mean to Lee Byung-hun? As the Exhibition Ambassador for the upcoming ‘Korea’ exhibition, actor Lee Byung-hun shares his thoughts on the creativity and innovation that have shaped Korean culture – from taking inspiration from the past to reimagining it for the present. He also explores one of the exhibition’s most intriguing objects and gives us a sneak peak behind the scenes as he records the exhibition’s audio guide. ‘Korea’ opens 1 October 🎬 Supported by @nationalmuseumofkorea Corporate partner @samsung 23 Sep 2026

They came. They fought. They conquered the British Museum ⚔️ A huge thank you to all the brilliant reenactors who helped us bring the Bayeux Tapestry to life! 📜 #BayeuxTapestry #1066 #BattleOfHastings #BehindTheScenes #BTS 30 Aug 2026

Wishing the most joyful #Diwali to everyone celebrating! 🪔 The name ‘Diwali’ comes from a Sanskrit term meaning ‘row of lights’ and the festival is a symbolic celebration of the triumph of light over darkness ✨ This painting depicts women with lanterns and fireworks celebrating the festival. It is heavily influenced by the Awadi style, which can be seen in its pronounced single-point perspective, detailed depiction of architecture and tall, conical hats worn by several of the women in attendance. Nainsukh is one of the few Indian artists whose names we know from before the modern period. This painting comes from the early period of Nainsukh's work, when he was at the court of Guler, where his father and his brother were also painters. 🎆 Nainsukh (c. 1710–1778), Women Celebrating Diwali. Gouache on paper, India, c. 1760–63. 08 Nov 2026

Multiplied Wonders explores how Renaissance Italy went viral, with affordable printed images spreading art, ideas and trends long before social media existed. Bringing together rare works from the British Museum collection, the exhibition reveals how woodcuts transformed the circulation of images across Italy, helping artistic innovations reach wider audiences than ever before. From devotional prints carried in pockets to striking designs by artists including Titian and Parmigianino, these were the posts, shares and reposts of the Renaissance world. 📍 Multiplied Wonders: Italian Renaissance Woodcuts is open now until 21 March 2027 07 Nov 2026

Spanning 2000 years of Korean arts and crafts, have a glimpse at our latest exhibition, Korea. Come and and see it for yourself. Link in bio #YourMuseum 📹@misucrumble 06 Nov 2026

Today, the 5 November, we remember the gunpowder plot. Guy Fawkes, an English Catholic, was the figure at the centre of the attempted assassination of the Protestant King James I and blowing up of Parliament by igniting barrels of gunpowder hidden in a cellar beneath its foundations. The plot failed, primarily due to a letter which exposed the plans. It saw Fawkes arrested at the scene of the crime, though there is some modern consensus that the damp cellar had decayed the powder which had been sitting there for some time, and would have failed to have the desired explosive effect regardless. Many prints of the event (as well as those that later satirised it) often depict the eye of God as watching Fawkes, suggesting the role of divine providence in thwarting the deadly event. It is commemorated annually as Guy Fawkes Day or Bonfire Night across the country. 💥 Anonymous. ‘A Plot with Powder, 1605’. C. 1623, etching on paper. 💥 Elisha Kirkall (1682–1742), 'The Powder Plot'. C. 1700–40, etching on paper. 💥 Anonymous. ‘The Powder Plot’. C. 1700–1750, etching on paper. 05 Nov 2026

The Iranian-American artist, Sara Rahbar (b.1976), began her Flag Series in 2005. Having left Iran following the aftermath of the 1979 Revolution, Rahbar’s works explore personal themes of national belonging and grapple with the entangled relationship between her adopted country of the United States and her native Iran. In 'Texas Flowers' she assembles large flower and sun motifs from brightly coloured suzani textiles on a vintage American flag. Traditionally embroidered by brides as part of their dowry, suzanis bear symbols of love and fertility. In Rahbar’s work, however, these motifs resemble loaded bullet chambers surrounding an outline of the state of Texas. Her flags can also be understood as emblems of identity, both in the range of symbolically potent materials she collects from across Iran and the USA, to her own personal identity as someone with multiple heritages. 🏵️ Sara Rahbar (b.1976), ‘Texas Flowers’. Silk and cotton, USA, 2008. 04 Nov 2026

November 4th is #AskAConservator day and we've taken the opportunity to ask Pip, our longest serving member of the team, a few questions! 04 Nov 2026

#OTD in history, Emperor Jahangir ascended the throne as the fourth Mughal emperor. He inherited one of history’s wealthiest and longest-ruling dynasties, which at its height controlled much of the Indian subcontinent. Jahangir’s reign is often regarded as a golden age of Mughal culture, blending imperial power with extraordinary artistic achievement. While political intrigue and palace rivalries unfolded at court, painting, architecture and the decorative arts flourished under his patronage. Renowned for his appreciation of beauty and craftsmanship, Jahangir championed artists who produced some of the finest works of Mughal painting, celebrated for their remarkable detail and lifelike depictions of people, plants and animals. 👑Portrait. Jahangir holding a crown. Portrait. Jahangir going to the rescue of a man being mauled by a lion. On Paper. Jahangir weighing prince Khurram against gold and silver.  Full-length portrait of Jahangir holding hawk Portrait. Emperor Jahangir receiving a petition from a fakir. 03 Nov 2026

The Día de los Muertos festival is celebrated on 1 and 2 November and is a way for people to reflect on the lives of deceased loved ones and celebrate those lives in a joyful way. Día de los Muertos has its origins in earlier pagan festivals for honouring the dead, which later merged with the Christian feasts of 'All Saints' and 'All Souls' in the 7th century AD. When the Spanish arrived in the Americas in the 1500s, their Christian religious customs were combined with the death-related traditions of Mexico's Indigenous population. This fusion gave rise to the uniquely Mexican festival we know today. For most Mexicans, the festival has both public and private aspects. Families and communities gather to visit, pray at and tend to the graves of their deceased relatives. More recently, larger urban centres celebrate the festival with elaborate commercial parades, which are popular with tourists. In their homes, families will construct altars for the deceased which they will adorn with ofrendas. These offerings can include flowers and foodstuffs, photographs of their dead relatives and goods and trinkets that allude to death, such as sugar skulls, paper banners and papier-mâché figures in skeletal form. This figure is a life-sized papier-mâché skeleton covered with flora and fauna, representing the idea of life blooming out of death. Although not produced for use in the festival, its decorative style is like the smaller scale offerings. It was made by the Mexican artist Felipe Linares after being commissioned by the Museum for a Day of the Dead exhibition called Skeleton at the Feast in 1990. 💀 Felipe Linares (b. 1936), La Muerta Enramada. Painted papier-mâché figure, Mexico, c. 1980s. 02 Nov 2026

Today is All Saints' Day, a Christian holy day celebrated in honour of all the saints of the Church. The remains or relics of saints were believed to retain some of the saint's holy virtue or power, acting as a link between their mortal and immortal life, a place where heaven and earth might touch. By venerating, touching, or even seeing the relics of saints, pilgrims could hope to gain the saint's miraculous aid in curing an illness, for example, or answering prayers. Most holy men and women were not officially recognised as saints until several years after their deaths, usually after they had performed posthumous miracles and pilgrims had begun to seek out their burial site as a holy place. Their original burial sites might be unsuitable for visitors, difficult to access, not well-marked, or considered inappropriate to their exalted status, such as a grave in the churchyard or in one of the less-important parts of the church. It was expected that saints' bones should be preserved in a setting which appropriately reflected their awesome holy power, not hidden or obscured in a plain tomb. Head reliquaries, also known as ‘chefs', were popular in the medieval period. This reliquary was made for the cathedral treasury at Basel, Switzerland, where it was thought to contain relics of the head of St Eustace. When it was opened, however, it contained the relics of various saints as well as nine unlabeled skull fragments. The head is of gilt silver with a circlet of precious stones. Within it is a carved wooden core also in the shape of a head, with a hollow compartment for relics. Around the plinth are gold plaques in the form of the 12 apostles standing under arches. You can find this object on display in Room 40. ⚱️ The St Eustace Head Reliquary. Silver gilt with rock crystal, chalcedony, amethyst, carnelian, pearl, mother of pearl, obsidian, glass and wood, Switzerland, c. Late Medieval period. 01 Nov 2026

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