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THREAD: #Labour blocks return of the #UK's #CulturalLoot. 😡 A Conservative law which allowed return of Britain's imperial plunder has been gutted by Labour/#LINO. 🤮

New UK law allows some museums to return cultural items to the nations they were looted from. But most of the loot is in "national museums" such as the #BritishMuseum, which the so-called "#LabourParty" has excluded from the new law.

The #ArtTheft by the #BritishEmpire is protected #Starmer's government. 😡 #ukpol

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Schedule to The Charities Act 2022 (Commencement No. 4 and Saving Provision) Regulations 2025.

The Schedule lists 16 museums whose trustees are banned from returning cultural loot:

Royal Armouries,
British Library,
British Museum,
Imperial War Museum,
National Gallery,
Natural History Museum,
National Maritime Museum,
National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside,
National Portrait Gallery,
Museum of London,
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew,
Science Museum,
Sir John Soane’s Museum,
Tate Gallery,
Victoria and Albert Museum,
Wallace Collection.

The British Museum
A Fusion of Worlds in Blue and White 🌏💙

Jessica Harrison-Hall, Keeper of Asia at the British Museum, introduces one of the most striking pieces from the Sir Percival David Collection — a blue-and-white porcelain dish from the Wanli period (1573–1620).
🎥 Featured in Traces of China II: Porcelain (CGTN): https://lnkd.in/evnqj56R #globalmuseum #BritishMuseum #porcelain

Final design for the British Museum’s new security sheds submitted for approval

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/final-design-for-the-british-museums-new-security-sheds-submitted-for-approval-85721/

Imponująca figura bodhisattwy Fugen Enmei odzyskała dawny blask dzięki międzynarodowej współpracy konserwatorów z British Museum i Tokyo University of the Arts. Zajrzyj za kulisy tego wyjątkowego projektu i zobacz efekty lat pracy, które przywróciły życie dziełu z okresu Edo 🏛️✨ #konserwacja #sztukajaponska #BritishMuseum
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https://www.facebook.com/reel/1516855509528873/

The inner court roof at the #britishmuseum that is all

Can We Meme the British Museum Into Doing the Right Thing?
The once and always profiteer of colonial looting is once again getting flak in the wake of the Louvre heists
https://hyperallergic.com/1056821/can-we-meme-the-british-museum-into-doing-the-right-thing/ #globalmuseum #BritishMuseum #museums

One of the most prevalent memes pertaining to the British Museum’s collection.(screenshot Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic via X)

The British Museum is not what it was. It used to be the only place in London where you could see foreign treasures seized from their original owners under questionable pretenses. Now, thanks to the Home Office’s new "jewelry seizure" policy, you can get that same authentic experience at Heathrow arrivals!
Why wait for the Benin Bronzes when the government is busy curating a new collection of "non-sentimental" watches and gold rings straight from the hands of asylum seekers?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/17/refugees-jewellery-asylum-home-office

#BritishMuseum #AsylumPolicy #JewellerySeizure #UKPolitics

The many layers of #museum collections ...

Peruvian artist Lizi Sánchez's on her artistic research in the #BritishMuseum #archives - and #art as a means to explore and retell the histories of these collections:

https://www.sdcelarbritishmuseum.org/projects/tracing-the-archive-re-telling-the-story

The true meaning of the Rosetta Stone.

#RosettaStone #BritishMuseum

People are looking at the Rosetta Stone in its display case. The picture is taken looking from one side of the Stone, so the people are superimposed on the reflection of the Stone in the front of the case.

There wasn't much time to visit the centre of London, but we did visit the British Museum! I think I captured every Buddha statue in the museum 😂!
#britishmuseum #London

Era una manera de trazar un eje imaginario entre Alejandría y Oxford. Ya existía la gran biblioteca (#Bodlian desde 1602, hoy con más de 13 millones de impresos); necesitaban su Museo.

Creyendo restaurar el pasado habían creado algo distinto. Museo como lugar de exhibición fue lo que terminó por asentarse en Europa, y no el modelo alejandrino de comunidad de sabios.

En 1759 se inauguró el #BritishMuseum en Londres.

Groundbreaking British Museum show set to challenge samurai myths.
Exhibition will reveal complex reality, featuring women and artistic creations, beyond armour-clad warriors
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/nov/09/groundbreaking-british-museum-show-set-to-challenge-samurai-myths #globalmuseum #BritishMuseum #museums #Japan #Samurai

Helmet with peapods, 1700-1800. Much of the samurai myth is a modern phenomenon, linked to mass media and pop culture. Photograph: Courtesy of Patrick SYZ Limited /Matthew Hollow

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/nov/09/groundbreaking-british-museum-show-set-to-challenge-samurai-myths

>>Much of the samurai myth – including even the word “samurai” – was invented long after their heyday, a modern phenomenon linked to mass media and pop culture.<<

Image: Woman’s firefighting jacket and hood. Photograph: John C. Weber Collection/John Bigelow Taylor

#Japan #History #Samurai #BritishMuseum