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What's on at British Museum
Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum
Antiquities, History, Things to do
- Rating: 4/5
Imagine someone discovering a settlement in the UK 1,000 years from now. Not a huge, bustling city like London; more Milton Keynes, or Derby. Somewhere that offers a very everyday view of urban life in that place and time. That’s what this exhibition...
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Sun May 26
– Sun Sep 29 - British Museum 44 Great Russell St, WC1B 3DG
- £15; concs avail
Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind
Antiquities, History, Things to do
Sadly the BM hasn't been able to ship the famous caves at Chauvet, Lascaux and Altamira to London for this absorbing exhibition, but it has been able to bring together art made from stone, bone, antler and ivory dating back 40,000 years, as well as younger...
- Sun May 26
- British Museum 44 Great Russell St, WC1B 3DG
- £10
Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind
Art
- Critics' choice
This exhibition features some of the worlds oldest sculptures, drawings and portraits, created across Europe between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago. To illustrate the idea that the minds of these long ago artists were not that different from our own the...
- Sun May 26
- British Museum 44 Great Russell St, WC1B 3DG
- £10, concs £8, booking fees apply
Recent Acquisitions: Archimboldo to Kitaj
Things to do
- Free
A display of some of the 311 prints and drawings presented to the British Museum by the American artist RB Kitaj (1932-2007). It's the first exhibition of Kitaj's work in London for over 20 years and the artist – who spent much of his life here – always...
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Thu May 30
– Sun Sep 1 - British Museum 44 Great Russell St, WC1B 3DG
The Art of Influence: Asian Propaganda
Attractions and museums, Things to do
- Free
This absorbing show looks at the political art of Asia from 1900 to 1976, as practised on a selection of posters, prints and drawings, money and medals, teapots, textiles and other objects, all combining to show how propaganda art reflects and is shaped...
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Thu May 30
– Sun Sep 1 - British Museum 44 Great Russell St, WC1B 3DG
Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art
Things to do
An exhibition of sexually explicit paintings, prints and illustrations produced in Japan between 1600 and 1900, known as shunga. Mostly made within the school of ukiyo-e, known in English as 'pictures of the floating world', the images can be funny, tender...
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Thu Oct 3
– Sun Jan 5 2014 - British Museum 44 Great Russell St, WC1B 3DG
- £7
Beyond El Dorado: Power and Gold in Ancient Colombia
Attractions and museums, Things to do
A display of some 250 masterworks borrowed from the Gold Museum in Bogota, Colombia, alongside objects drawn from the British Museum's own collection. The exhibition looks at the myth of El Dorado and the 'Lost City of Gold' and presents technically sophisticated...
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Thu Oct 17
– Sun Mar 23 2014 - British Museum 44 Great Russell St, WC1B 3DG
- £10
























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