A Chinese publisher has got permission from the British Museum to produce a high-definition publication including a copy of a picture painted by a Chinese emperor of the Song Dynasty (960-1279).

It has been stolen and recovered twice, sold for £74 million and now, for the first time in a decade, Edvard Munch’s The Scream is coming to London.

A new archaeology gallery at the Maidstone Museum has been opened by comedian and actor Hugh Dennis. Mr Dennis said he had heard about the gallery through friends at the Kent Archaeological ...

Then, instead of walking out of the museum and attempting to make a fortune, as an art thief usually does, he dropped the valuable coin in the museum’s donation box.

The National Gallery celebrates 200th birthday with reopening of Sainsbury Wing, Master Japanese artist Hiroshige comes to the British Museum, Sir Grayson Perry responds to The Wallace Collection ...