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London, a world city in 20 objects: Shiva Nataraja, the god Shiva dancing in...
Richard Blurton, British Museum Shiva Nataraja Fine bronze sculptures of the gods of Hinduism were produced in the Chola period in southern India for use as processional images. These portable...
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London, a world city in 20 objects: inscription from the Firuz Minar at Gaur
Michael Willis, British Museum Inscription from the Firuz Minar at Gaur From the 1300s, when London was still a small town on the River Thames, the city of Gaur in Bengal was a vibrant metropolis. It...
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London, a world city in 20 objects: Korean moon jar
Sascha Priewe, British Museum Conventionally known as ‘moon jars’, dalhangri in Korean, because of their suggestive shape and milky-white glaze, these vessels are considered a high point of Korean...
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London, a world city in 20 objects: I Love Minatures by Rashid Rana
Sona Datta, independent curator The British Museum continues to collect objects both old and new from across the world to ensure that the collection reflects diverse world cultures. The Museum acquires...
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London, a world city in 20 objects: Cloisonné decorated jar
Jessica Harrison-Hall, British Museum Cloisonné decorated jar Philanthropic Londoners are supporting the Evening Standard’s campaigns to encourage London primary school children to read more and to...
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Celebrating Ganesha
Manisha Nene, Assistant Director, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) Carved schist figure of Ganesha (1872,0701.59) Today is the Hindu festival of Ganesha Jayanti, Ganesha’s...
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Dressed to impress: netsuke and Japanese men’s fashion
Noriko Tsuchiya, curator, British Museum Distant view of Mount Tsukuba, depicting a merchant wearing a dark kimono in a restaurant in Shinagawa (Tokyo). Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden’s pseudonym,...
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Ming culinary culture: it’s all very beautiful, but what did they eat?
Malcolm McNeill, project researcher and doctoral candidate, SOAS, University of London In the book accompanying the BP exhibition Ming: 50 years that changed China, curator Jessica Harrison-Hall’s...
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East meets west in Mantegna’s Adoration of the Magi
Dr Caroline Campbell, interim head of the Curatorial Department and Curator of Italian Paintings before 1500, National Gallery, London One of the most remarkable objects in the British Museum’s...
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Bringing a Ming painting back to life
Jin Xian Qiu, Senior Conservator of Chinese Paintings and Carol Weiss, Conservator of Chinese Paintings, British Museum On entering the BP exhibition Ming: 50 years that changed China, one of the first...
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Facelift: the new Korea Foundation Gallery
Sascha Priewe, curator, and Ellie Miles, Interpretation Officer, British Museum The Museum is re-opening its refreshed Korea Foundation Gallery (Room 67) thanks to a generous grant from the National...
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Coming of age: The Hirayama Studio celebrates 21 years conserving the British...
Carol Weiss, Conservator of Chinese Paintings and Joanna Kosek, Head of Pictorial Art Section, Conservation and Scientific Research, British Museum Anyone who has ever visited the Hirayama...
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An interview with manga artist Chiba Tetsuya
The Asahi Shimbun Display Manga now: three generations, explores manga’s diverse appeal through specially commissioned pieces by three contemporary manga artists. To celebrate the display, the...
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An interview with manga artist Hoshino Yukinobu
In the second of our interviews to celebrate The Asahi Shimbun Display Manga now: three generations Nicole Rousmaniere, the IFAC Handa Curator of Japanese Arts, interviews the manga artist Hoshino...
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An interview with manga artist Nakamura Hikaru
In the final of our three interviews to celebrate the Asahi Shimbun Display Manga now: three generations An Van Camp, Curator of Dutch and Flemish drawings and prints, interviews the up-and-coming...
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A conservator says goodbye to China
After a year in China studying with the conservators at the Shanghai Museum, I arrived back in London in mid-December to start putting into practice at the British Museum the many new skills and...
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New exhibition announced – Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave
Hokusai produced works of astonishing quality right up until his death at the age of 90 and this exhibition will be the first in the UK to focus on Hokusai’s later years, when he produced some of his...
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Chinese scroll mounting at Chinese New Year
We have recently witnessed a real surge of interest in the traditional methods of conserving Chinese paintings over in China, and as a result, our Senior Conservator of Chinese Paintings and Master...
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Everything you need to know about Chinese New Year
恭禧發財 These characters are often used to wish people a Happy New Year in Chinese and are pronounced ‘Gong Xi Fa Cai’ (in Mandarin) and ‘Gong Hey Fat Choy’ (in Cantonese). Chinese New Year is the most...
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Joining the Hirayama Studio
Kyoko Kusunoki handling Japanese mounting silks. Photo: © CXD. In March 2016, I started working at the British Museum as a conservator of Japanese paintings. My workplace is the Hirayama Studio which...
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