The British Museum’s vast and imposing Round Reading Room has reopened this week to all visitors after being closed for the past 11 years. Designed by Sydney Smirke and opened in 1857 ...

The domed Reading Room first opened on May 2 ... but it is splendid to have the jewel restored to the architectural crown of the British Museum at last.

(Photo feature by: Nussaiba bin Shaiba) LONDON, Sept 16 (KUNA) -- The Reading Room in the British Museum is one of its iconic spaces, historically renowned as a place of study and intellectual ...

the British Museum. The world-renowned museum’s majestic Reading Room, Room 17 – home of the ancient Lycian Nereid Monument – and the museum’s China and South Asia gallery will be the ...

The British Museum’s major new tribute to the 19th-century Japanese master Utagawa Hiroshige is an exquisite foil for modern life ...

London's fabric will be taking over the British Museum for a one-off event next month. The Farringdon nightclub is set to host a free, drop-in event across three rooms at the central London museum on ...

A cultural powerhouse or a celebration of stolen artifacts from colonial times? The British Museum is a fascinating window into global culture—despite the problematic origins of many exhibits.