Tag: British Museum
2000 artefacts disappear in British Museum, director quits
The museum's chairman of trustees George Osborne, a former UK chancellor, confirmed the missing artefacts on Saturday, admitting the collection…
British Museum holds tight to Benin Bronzes, despite taking gift
The artist baiting the museum is Osarobo Zeickner-Okoro, a founding member of the Ahiamwen Guild of artists and bronze casters.
150 years after: British museum to return Ethiopian emperor’s hair
A British museum has agreed to repatriate to Ethiopia two locks of hair taken from the head of the 19th-century…