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What is a Book of the Dead?
John Taylor, British Museum I’m the curator of the exhibition Journey through the afterlife: ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, which opens at the British Museum on 4 November 2010. The exhibition is...
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A magnificent collection comes to London
St John Simpson, exhibition curator Years of quiet behind-the-scenes conversations and negotiations through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, accelerating as the months passed, are now about to come...
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Dismantling the crown
Sarah Price and Xavier Duffy, Museum Assistants Early in January we travelled to Bonn, the venue of the previous Afghanistan exhibition to assist with the de-installation and transport of the objects...
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Afghanistan exhibition opens 3 March
Constance Wyndham, Assistant Exhibition Curator On the eve of the exhibition opening, we’re now very excited about seeing this exhibition opening to the public too. Over the last month, we have been...
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St Baudime reliquary arrives at the Museum
By James Robinson, Exhibition Curator Today the installation began in earnest with the placing of one of the most significant and compelling reliquaries of the exhibition. The statue reliquary of St...
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When the world came to London
Dora Thornton, Exhibition Curator Four centuries ago, the world began to come to London, which was reaching for the status of a world city. It was a time in which so many aspects of the modern world...
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Installing Shakespeare: staging the world
Becky Allen, Project Curator: Shakespeare The three-week installation of the British Museum’s major new exhibition Shakespeare: staging the world has just finished, and the Reading Room has been...
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The tale of a tapestry
Maggie Wood, Keeper of Social History, Warwickshire Museum Service The Sheldon Tapestry Map of Warwickshire was woven in the 1590s, and was one of a set of four tapestry maps made to hang in Ralph...
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A wooden O
Alan Farlie, Exhibition designer, RFK Architects Ltd Explaining the job of an exhibition designer is not straightforward as it depends on the type of exhibition and the type of story being told. For a...
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Pompeii and Herculaneum: two ordinary cities with an extraordinary story
David Prudames, British Museum In AD 79, late in the year, two cities – Herculaneum and Pompeii – along with various small towns, villages, and farms in the south of Italy were wiped out in just 24...
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Farewell to Curious Beasts
Alison Wright, exhibition curator, British Museum Curious Beasts at Compton Verney, the first venue on the tour The British Museum touring exhibition Curious Beasts: Animal Prints from the British...
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The making and meaning of Ming: 50 years that changed China
Yu-ping Luk, Exhibition Project Curator, British Museum One of our missions at the British Museum is to encourage visitors to think about cultures and periods that might be outside their everyday...
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The many faces of Napoleon: ‘Little Boney’ or Napoleon le Grand?
Sheila O’Connell, Curator: British Prints, British Museum On a Tuesday at the end of January, we unpacked the marvellous large bronze head of Napoleon Bonaparte made by Antonio Canova for Lord and Lady...
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The shock of the nude
Ian Jenkins, Exhibition Curator, British Museum I’m currently working on the Museum’s major exhibition Defining beauty: the body in ancient Greek art, which opens 26 March 2015. When you see the...
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Designing beauty
Caroline Ingham, Senior Designer: Exhibitions, British Museum Detail of a Bronze reconstruction of around 1920 by George Römer of the Doryphoros or ‘spear-bearer’ by Polykleitos, made around 440–430...
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Conservation of a clove boat
Verena Kotonski, Specialist Conservator (Organics), British Museum In November 2014, my workbench temporarily turned into something close to a shipyard when a model boat made of cloves arrived in the...
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Indigenous Australia: before the sheep arrived
Gaye Sculthorpe, Curator, Oceania, British Museum As curator of the BP exhibition Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation it is a great privilege to be presenting this major exhibition in London....
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One-hit wonders: spear points from the Kimberley
Rachael Murphy, Project Curator, Oceania, British Museum The BP exhibition Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation has been open for a few weeks, long enough, it seems, for some favourite objects...
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Let’s talk about sex: men and women in Greek art
Dr Katherine Harloe, Associate Professor of Classics and Intellectual History, University of Reading Browsing the exhibition Defining beauty: the body in ancient Greek art on a rainy afternoon, an...
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Making histories: Captain Cook and Indigenous Australia
Maria Nugent, Research Fellow, Australian National University Objects on display in the Indigenous Australia exhibition at the British Museum, London There is a corner (literally) in the BP exhibition...
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