Originally founded in 1753 to document human history, art and culture, the British Museum is based inside a large Robert Smirke-designed complex constructed during the early to mid-19th century. The ...

But it was the British Museum, founded in 1753, that first introduced the concept of a museum as a public institution rather than a private collection. From there, the idea spread, leading to the ...

Benjamin Franklin became head of the Parliamentary Post in 1753, which allowed him ... according to the U.S. Postal Museum. That got him fired by the British but lionized back home.

They now form a kind of museum of antique Quaker benches. There was an earlier Quaker meeting house in Lancaster. What happened to it? That meeting, established in 1753 just south of Lancaster’s ...

The British Museum has selected Lebanese-born Lina Ghotmeh’s architecture firm to redesign its Western Range galleries, a major renovation project for historic buildings on the western side of ...

After a nine-month selection process, LGA emerged as the unanimous choice of the expert judging panel, chaired by British Museum Chairman George Osborne. The panel praised the firm's materially ...

Paris-based studio Lina Ghotmeh Architecture has been selected to renovate the British Museum's Western Range galleries in London. Lina Ghotmeh Architecture, which is led by Lebanese architect ...

Architect Lina Ghotmeh has won the competition to redesign the Western Range galleries at the British Museum in London, beating Rem Koolhaas and David Chipperfield who were also shortlisted for ...

This is Pablo Picasso the way he is rarely seen – at least in so far as the hundred or so pieces at the British Museum’s Picasso: Printmaker have been displayed. The viewer is treated to ...

Best bit There’s something so funny about sardonic British tannoy playing overhead in your local shop, a humour Two Point Studios clearly understands with Two Point Museum. As you potter along ...