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Being human Review 2018/19

Contents

06 Director’s preface 08 Chairman’s foreword 10 Headlines

17 Innovation, investigation, discovery

26 National tours and loans 28 National partnerships and training 30 in the UK

36 International tours and loans 38 International partnerships and training 42 Research across the globe

46 New galleries 49 The collection 50 53 Learning programmes 57 Digital and publishing

60 Support 65 Appendices

At the British Visitors to the BM in 2019 are shown in full-page black-and-white photographs throughout the Annual Review. Photographs by Phil Sayer Map of the world, Money Map of the World, 1482 2012 Printed in Ulm, this portrait of the This print held in the world held in the Department of Department of Coins and Prints and Drawings is signed by Medals is of a collage by its maker, Johannes Schnitzer. British artist Justine Smith. The map illustrated a work by Smith creates a portrait of the celebrated 2nd-century AD the world out of the differing geographer Ptolemy. banknotes from each country. (40 x 56 cm) (86 x 137 cm)

Director’s preface

In 2018/19, six million people visited the in . They came because the BM is a place where you learn about human beings: their achievements, their challenges, their capacity to create beautiful and useful things. Since the BM first opened its to the public 260 years ago, an estimated 350 million people have visited. It is a staggering figure, and one that fills me with enormous pride: at the continuing vitality of the BM, at its endlessly relevant collection of eight million objects from every corner of the world, at its importance in showing two million years of – our history – under one roof. How we work as an institution has altered hugely in that time. Our work has become more collaborative, more community-centred. The voices of the Museum have become multiple, as if the dialogue among objects in the galleries had lent itself to a wider conversation among audiences. Walk into any gallery in the BM and the sheer variety of people is as wondrous as the artefacts they look at. The BM endeavours to create a similar feeling of openness with all our colleagues around the UK and the globe. The benefits of such a listening approach are incalculable. We collaborate not just by sharing the BM’s material and intellectual resources, but by learning from our partners all kinds of ways in which we might work with them – whether by developing practical training programmes or arranging a loan or that tells a particular story they want to tell. A recent measure of this success was and the Discobolus, 2nd century AD world: a history in nine stories, a BM collaboration with For a collaborative project CSMVS in Mumbai and the National Museum in in India, the BM loaned the Delhi. First proposed by our colleagues in India, the celebrated Roman project was then jointly developed. The exhibition set of a discus-thrower to two in Delhi and India’s history in a global context. It was a superb use Mumbai. (Height 173 cm) of the BM collection to tell a wider story and take Indian visitors on a great journey to somewhere new. Sitting on a wall after having seen the show in Mumbai, one small boy lifted his arms and cried, with awe and excitement on his face, ‘I have seen the world . . . And now I’m tired!’

Hartwig Fischer Director

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Chairman’s foreword Key to this is the commitment and hard work of the Museum’s staff, volunteers and supporters of every kind. This has been an action-packed year at the British This palace of global wonders depends on all these Museum. Spectacular additions to the permanent people, and the Trustees are truly grateful to them. exhibition spaces – the Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic world and the Mitsubishi Corporation Sir Japanese Galleries – have been opened, and wonderful Chairman of the Trustees temporary exhibitions have included Rodin and the of ancient , and the BP exhibition I am : king of the world, king of . The BM welcomed over 300,000 pupils to as part of formal education programmes, and an extraordinary range of events for adults included the BM’s first major music festival: and the world: a symphony of . Outside London, the BM loaned over 2,800 objects to 105 locations around the UK, where they were seen by more than ten million people. The Portable Scheme, which records archaeological finds made by the public in and Wales and is administered by the BM and National Museum Wales, reported around 70,000 finds. As part of its ambition to be the museum of the world for the world, the BM lent more than 2,400 objects to 79 venues outside the UK. The International Training Programme, now in its 13th year, continued Trustees to expand and has a network of 276 alumni from 43 countries. The BM’s Scheme brought more Iraqi The Hon. Nigel Boardman museum professionals for training in London and then Ms Cheryl Carolus in their home country. Funded by the Department for Ms Elizabeth Corley CBE Digital, , Media & Sport, this remains one of worshipper, Ms MBE the most important of the BM’s many projects. 650–575 BC Ms Clarissa Farr Looking to the future, BM people have continued to The reach of the Assyrian Professor Clive Gamble FBA (to August 2018) strengthen their network of colleagues around the world Empire could be seen Professor FBA (from August 2018) and especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where there is in this Cypriot figure wearing Ms Muriel Gray Assyrian-style dress. Samurai armour, scope to do more to share our collections. Back in the A BM exhibition on the Dame Vivian Hunt DBE (from March 2019) 18th century UK, planning permission has been secured for the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal Professor Nicola Lacey CBE FBA In the Mitsubishi Corporation 15,000 square metre British Museum Archaeological attracted 140,000 visitors. Sir Richard Lambert Japanese Galleries, visitors Research Collection – the BM_ARC – in . (Height 62 cm) Sir Deryck Maughan can now see this outstanding This will be a major research, storage and teaching Sir Charlie Mayfield (from June 2018) set of Samurai armour. Its finely crafted components facility. And plans are well advanced in Bloomsbury Mr CBE of metal, , textile, for developing the Museum’s masterplan – now dubbed Sir Paul Nurse FRS leather and horn underwent the Rosetta project. We will be hearing more of this Mr Gavin Patterson more than 250 of in the year ahead. Mr Mark Pears CBE conservation prior to display. These are uncertain political times in the UK CBE RA (Height 150 cm) and around the world. But the Trustees are convinced Sir Paul Ruddock FSA that as an institution of global significance located in Lord Sassoon London, the role of the British Museum is likely to be Professor Amartya Sen CH FBA (to July 2018) more important than ever in the years ahead. Dame Nemat (Minouche) Shafik Ms Lord Turner of Ecchinswell FRS Baroness Wheatcroft of Blackheath (to August 2018) George Weston (from March 2019)

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National International

National loans The BM loaned over 2,800 objects to venues American In January 2019, the BM launched the Santo Domingo around the UK. Research Centre Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research. launched

New BM collection The BM received planning permission to construct the African During visits to and , the BM director and centre gets British Museum Archaeological Research Collection, a dialogue colleagues met with HRM Ewuare II, the Oba of Benin. go ahead new storage and research facility near Reading University designed by John McAslan + Partners. New lab in With Sudan’s National Corporation for Antiquities Sudan and Museums, the BM and partners worked together Recent Nearly 70,000 finds were reported through the BM’s to open a bioarchaeology lab in Khartoum. archaeological Portable Antiquities Scheme. An outstanding finds pendant of 1000–750 BC was found in Shropshire. Tackling Circulating Artefacts is a new digital platform that looting tracks the histories of objects to counteract illegal Fieldwork on Scholars studied handaxe assemblages and grave goods trafficking in antiquities from and Sudan. ancient Britain in the UK as part of research into prehistoric communities, some over 800,000 years old. Retrieving The BM assisted government authorities in identifying artefacts artefacts stolen in recent years from Iraq and Afghanistan on A touring exhibition on buried hoards opened in Salisbury, and ensuring their return. UK tour where a pot of Roman coins discovered nearby just two months earlier was put on display. One of several BM tours around the UK, the show later travelled to Belfast. Gold plaque, Preserving Participants in the BM’s Iraq Scheme, which offers training 1808–1799 BC sites in Iraq in rescue archaeology to Iraqi professionals, included a A popular touring exhibition group of women from . New finds and The BM worked with Torquay Museum and the on drew over old stones University of Exeter to create a display on recent 350,000 visitors in . Rare artefacts included excavations at Ipplepen. At Stonehenge, a collaborative this plaque showing The science of New scientific research at the BM has identified the natural exhibition with looked at the stone Amenemhat IV offering a colour dyes used in Chinese textiles. A non-destructive technique circle in a European context. of unguent to the god using wavelengths of light to identify dyes was also Atum. (3 x 3 cm) developed. It showed that a child’s sock from ancient Egypt would have been cheerfully striped in red, blue and yellow. Bringing The three-year project Object Journeys welcomed communities community partners to explore museum collections in into the museum the UK. Two co-curated displays were presented at Exhibitions “la Caixa” Banking Foundation renewed its partnership Souvenirs of the BM and Brighton Museum. abroad with the BM to tour exhibitions in Spain. By 31 March Britain’s early global 2019, over 350,000 people had seen : king of Egypt connections were the in Barcelona, Madrid and Girona. subject of an exhibition Digital training Museum Futures was launched. The scheme offers young at Stonehenge. Loans from the BM included this people aged 18–24 year-long paid traineeships in museums 6,000-year-old -head, across the country. made of Italian but found in . (Length 22 cm)

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London In the future

New Islamic The new Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic New exhibitions Major exhibitions at the BM in 2019/20 look at the world gallery world opened in October 2018. The Financial Times praised Norwegian artist , the Japanese graphic its ‘breathtaking scope’. art Manga, and the myth and reality of ancient .

Japanese galleries The Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries reopened. National tours Touring exhibitions across the country will continue to reopen The BM’s Japanese collection is the most comprehensive share the collection with UK audiences outside London. in Europe. They include shows on hoards found in Britain, LGBTQ histories and the legends of the Vikings.

Top attraction The BM attracted 6m visitors in 2018/19, making it the UK’s most visited attraction. Partnerships with Work with continues, as community Manchester and involvement helps to devise a new South Asia Gallery at the museum. The gallery is being created in partnership with Popular exhibitions Exhibitions on Rodin and the ancient Assyrian king the BM and is set to open there in 2021. A new medieval Ashurbanipal attracted over 250,000 visitors. gallery at Norwich Castle keep is also underway.

Music festival The BM held a two-week festival in the galleries, The Scream, 1895 Opening up Egypt’s and curators are beginning a groundbreaking featuring traditional as well as modern and contemporary Edvard Munch’s famous hidden history research project to reveal the contents of sealed Egyptian music from around the world. lithograph features in containers and to determine how large hollow cast a 2019 exhibition on statues from ancient Egypt were made. They are using the the Norwegian artist. (36 x 26 cm) BM’s X-radiography and CT-scanning facilities, combined Gallery tours BM volunteers marked 25 years of leading public tours of with neutron imaging techniques at the Rutherford the BM. In the past ten years, 450,000 visitors have Appleton Laboratory, one of the UK’s leading scientific taken part in free Eye-Opener tours. research laboratories.

Digital learning Samsung renewed its support for the Samsung Digital New young people’s The inaugural Greengross Young People’s Summer Discovery Centre. Over 25,000 children and families summer programme Programme takes place in 2019. The participants aged participated in 2018/19, the largest number ever. 16–24 from diverse backgrounds will shape the programme and immerse themselves in the working life of the BM.

Accessible activities The BM offers language courses in Chinese, Arabic and Sanskrit, and introduces ‘relaxed’ talks for those with Exhibitions abroad Sharing the collection abroad includes major loans and autism and learning disabilities. exhibitions on ancient Greeks, Egyptian and medieval Europe. They will be seen, among other Ancient and countries, in Canada, Denmark, Nigeria and . modern Japan Tahitian discovery The BM conserved a towering Chief Mourner’s costume New displays in the brought from in the 18th century. Underneath they reopened Mitsubishi found an undocumented red poncho, probably last seen to inspire The BM publishes for a wide range of readers. Forthcoming Corporation Japanese during ’s voyage to the island. learning children’s books in 2019 include two in the series Find Tom Galleries include this 2017 digital Time waterfall by in time. They encourage young readers to discover ancient artist Tatsuo Miyajima. Egypt and by looking for Tom and his cat Digby. (Height 160 cm) Ancient border Research on a Mesopotamian pillar uncovered the first Co-published with Nosy Crow, the books are due to appear conflict written evidence of a border conflict. The discovery was around the world in English, Chinese, Greek, Italian, put on public show for visitors to see. French, Spanish and Catalan.

12 13 Thanks to revelatory new research, this lump of stone turns out to be an utterly fascinating document. It is the first written evidence of a border dispute and in it, for the first time as far as we know, appears the description ‘no man’s land’ … Border Pillar, c.2400 BC

The Times reports the A reassessment of a recent decoding of a pillar showed cuneiform pillar, c.2400 BC, how research on the in the British Museum existing collection continues to unearth fascinating November 2018 discoveries in world history. (Height 40 cm) Innovation, investigation, discovery

The work of the BM is always making new connections. What begins as an idea for a photography display can to a major discovery on material from ancient Iraq. An intellectual emphasis on world history encourages practical global contacts with colleagues in many countries. Projects are never isolated. Conservation of textiles can involve training students to carry the work forward in years to come. Discussions with colleagues in Africa about future museums on the continent lead not just to presenting those ideas in the UK, but to reshaping the methods through which we construct our own museums. These integrated processes are always changing and moving in new directions. They ceaselessly renew what we do, how we investigate and – sometimes by chance – what we discover.

Middle East Borders were the theme of a BM exhibition in 2018 that was first conceived as a display of photographs. Haunting images of Iraq from 1980 by Ursula Schulz- Dornburg (now generously donated to the BM by the artist) showed fragile marshlands and vanished landscapes where the marks of human history had disappeared. Drawing on the collection to respond to the sites in the photographs, curators selected related objects to display alongside them. One was the Lagash Border Pillar which has been in the BM collection for 150 years. The pillar was set up by the king of Lagash around 2400 BC to mark the boundary of his realm in southern Iraq and was inscribed in a deliberately abraded, archaic style of cuneiform to lend antiquity, and thus authority, to his assertion of ownership. As they began to study it, BM curators were able to decipher its text A history of division for the very first time. The tall cylinder turned out to be Displays in the exhibition the first written evidence of a border dispute and – to No man’s land included the scholars’ surprise – called the disputed territory photographs by Ursula ‘no man’s land’. This revelation about the Lagash Schulz-Dornburg and a signed map showing the 1916 Sykes- Border Pillar and a 4,500-year-old dispute featured Picot Agreement between the alongside other discoveries in the Asahi Shimbun UK and . The secret Display No man’s land – to share with the public this agreement, which defined latest piece of research and place it in the context of the two countries’ spheres of subsequent territorial assertion in Iraq. influence in the , would have lasting effects. Visitors could likewise contemplate the consequences of transgressed borders in the BP exhibition, I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria. Assyrian conquest of neighbouring territory eventually gave way to the return of the enemies they had made. A wide range of new research was featured.

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Visitors could admire a wall of surviving documents ties to Africa shaped a and related events from Ashurbanipal’s world-renowned at in London, supported by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. , which the BM has helped to digitise and Speakers from Ghana and Nigeria discussed how they make accessible to scholars worldwide. They could also engage the public in their museums, while architect read about the quest to find the missing lines, among Sir David Adjaye looked at the future of museum thousands of unidentified textual fragments, of the and its role in Africa. great Mesopotamian epic poem, . BM support across the continent includes measures The effects of conflict in Iraq are a perpetual to counteract looting and illegal trafficking of objects concern and the BM is an active player not just from Egypt and Sudan. To this end, the BM has drawn in studying the past, but in trying to assist Iraqi together a dedicated team to undertake research on colleagues today. The BM’s Iraq Scheme, funded the circulation of antiquities. The work will include by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & the creation of a cutting-edge digital platform to track Iraq Training Scheme Sport, trains visiting Iraqi professionals in all aspects the histories of objects. The Circulating Artefacts The BM programme for of rescue archaeology, beginning with training in platform – funded by the ’s Cultural Iraqi colleagues includes London and extending through fieldwork in Iraq. Protection Fund in partnership with the Department training in site surveying as The archaeological fieldwork associated with the Iraq for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport – will encourage well as object conservation. Trainees develop a wide range Scheme training continues to turn up outstanding dealers, collectors, museums, enforcement agencies of skills to meet the demands discoveries, including an ancient bridge at Tello and and others to report artefacts and support criminal of Emergency Heritage significant Parthian remains at Qalatga Darband. investigations and repatriation efforts. The project will Management in present- In 2018, the BM was privileged to welcome two groups also share skills with heritage professionals in Egypt and day Iraq. of women participants, the first of which came from Sudan, and supply them with equipment and software to the Mosul region and had witnessed first-hand enable their own monitoring. African museums the dreadful destruction of their cultural heritage Training and capacity building go hand in hand. Architect Sir David Adjaye perpetrated by Daesh. New developments require a commitment to their discusses contemporary effective staffing and operation. In February 2019, museum design and future museum projects in Africa. Africa the BM helped to open a new research facility at The work of the BM engages ever more intensely the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum, the with global politics today and the changing contexts M. Bolheim Bioarchaeology Laboratory. A generous in which its research takes place. In 2018 director donation has enabled construction of the laboratory, and BM curators met with colleagues in collaboration with the British Museum and the in Nigeria and Ghana to learn more about their Institute for Bioarchaeology. The lab will be used ambitious museum building projects in Lagos, Benin to store and research human remains and other City and Accra. Their discussions prompted fresh ideas bioarchaeological collections from excavations in Sudan. on how the BM itself might work with communities to It will be overseen by Mohamed Saad, whom the BM present its African collections in new ways. trained as the first bioarchaeologist in Sudan. During the visit to Nigeria the team were received by HRM Ewuare II, the Oba of Benin, and the BM India pledged continuing support for the development of the The contemporary museum offers new ways of working Royal Museum in Benin City. Assistance will include with the collection. The BM recently collaborated training and advice on displays and other areas, and with two museums in India – CSMVS in Mumbai and the BM is working with colleagues in Benin towards the National Museum in Delhi – to produce India and the possibility of arranging long-term loans of historic the world: a history in nine stories. The groundbreaking objects from the to the new Royal exhibition shown in Mumbai and Delhi marked 70 Museum. The BM is a key member of the international years since India’s Independence, and united artefacts Benin Dialogue Group, which includes representatives from all three collections, along with loans from more from Nigeria, , , Netherlands, India and the world than 20 Indian museums. The exhibition was supported Sweden and the UK. The BM collaboration with by the Getty Foundation and Tata Trusts, with This collaborative engagement emerges from long- museums in Mumbai and additional support from the Newton Bhabha Fund term partnerships generated by research and exhibition Delhi set Indian history in and the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. the context of world events. projects and extensive training initiatives delivered This 4,000-year-old Egyptian The result was a show of unprecedented scale and through the Africa Programme in both East and West shows the pharaoh reach: over 250,000 people visited in the two cities. Africa over the past ten years. In February 2019, those Mentuhotep II. (Height 79 cm) A further 138,000 saw replica objects via a children’s

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exhibition bus which travelled beyond Mumbai work by scientists, curators and art historians was shared introducing the displays. through a successful workshop at the BM in September By drawing on the BM’s world collection, the and future academic publications are planned. collaboration enabled the partners to set a history of From to Toronto to Shanghai, staff India within a global context. Traditional views were lectured on a broad range of topics, such as the global opened up as new questions arose out of the wider trade in . When conservators from Japan historical conjunctions: how is leadership expressed worked alongside BM staff to apply the final backing if you compare a sculpture of an ancient Indian king to a 19th-century Japanese in the BM – a to a ; how do Asian depictions of copy of a much earlier wall painting from the Buddhist Europeans find a mirror in western views of India? of Horyuji – 13 professional conservators As the Hindustan Times concluded for its Indian readers: from Europe came to observe the specialised work. ‘The 200-odd pieces on display in India and the world Research on material from South and convey that we share our history and legacy with included study of a large-scale 8th-century embroidery continents, countries and people in ways we cannot showing Shakyamuni Buddha, undertaken with the even imagine.’ Nara National Museum in Japan. This collaborative Such joint projects create an enduring legacy. Mumbai museum partner endeavour to preserve the embroidery enabled the BM CSMVS has since opened its first children’s museum CSMVS in Mumbai opened to loan the work to Nara for an exhibition there in 2018 on its campus, one of several long-term effects enhanced up its own collection as entitled Threads of Devotion. by working together to find new ways of presenting part of the collaboration with the BM. At the the museum’s content. In March 2019, the BM ran museum, vistors encounter The Pacific a special course (ITP+) in Mumbai. The workshop contemporary When James Cook first visited Tahiti in 1769, he – supported by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky such as The Buddhas witnessed a ceremony to mark the death of a chief. Charitable Trust through the BM’s International Within by Satish Gupta. A towering figure at the ceremony wore extraordinary Training Programme – was arranged at CSMVS to garb: a coconut shell apron over a barkcloth poncho, focus on the vital role museums can play in education, a wooden breastplate covered with gleaming mother-of- learning and social development, both in India and pearl discs, a shell mask, a headdress, a black in other parts of the world. feather cloak trailing down the back. In 2018, a cross-disciplinary team of conservators, and Japan curators, mounters, scientists and visiting Tahitian Developing scientific research at the BM creates new curator Théano Guillaume-Jaillet came together materials that can be used worldwide. In 2018, a BM to investigate this extraordinary object, the Chief prepared a new resource to identify natural Mourner’s costume. Disassembling the complex dyes in textiles from the Road. A broad palette artefact, they discovered a number of surprising items. of dyes was used in ancient China but few scientific One was completely unexpected. An undocumented works accurately name them. Following a study of fine white barkcloth was tied to the easel on which 7th- to 10th-century textiles from , the the costume had been mounted. Rolled inside was a Chief Mourner’s costume BM collected plant materials and created a series tiputa (poncho), its unfaded red stripes suggesting it A multi-disciplinary project of scientific databases which give the botanical origins might not have been seen since Cook’s voyages in to conserve an elaborate of Chinese dyes. The published results will be used the 18th century. funerary costume collected from Tahiti in the 18th century around the world so scholars can identify the dyes in The excitement was profound, and the entire drew on the resources of a archaeological textiles. costume was carefully studied and conserved over broad field of experts. Work on Chinese and Japanese artefacts in several months, with support from the Radcliffe Trust, (Height 214 cm) collections at the BM and around the world is frequently Normanby Charitable Trust and Dr & Mrs Lucas. The an international collaboration. BM staff travel work drew together a broad range of museum expertise, abroad to study and support other collections while from challenging conservation of organic materials Collaborative research visiting scholars spend time studying artefacts at the to new interpretations that arose from studying the Work with colleagues BM. Professor Rongyu Su of the Chinese costume’s composite layers. from China included a of Sciences joined the BM as a British Academy Put on show for the public to see, the Chief groundbreaking study of Visiting Fellow in 2018. His three-month study of Mourner’s costume became the star exhibit of the Eastern Zhou bronze vessels of the BC. Chinese in the BM collection revealed how 2018 BM exhibition, Reimagining Captain Cook: Pacific the 6th-century BC vessels were constructed using a perspectives, supported by Stephen and Julie Fitzgerald. revolutionary pattern-block method. The international

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Americas Located in Berkshire, the BM_ARC will support The BM houses many unusual collections. Making an exciting new research partnership between the them accessible and showing their relevance is a key BM and the University of Reading. The collaboration aim. One such group is a set of more than 800 - will encourage innovative research into the collection, plate negatives and nearly 500 plaster casts. They from Palaeolithic to later archaeology and were made in the 19th century by , archaeological science. Study facilities will give students an English explorer who undertook seven journeys and academics from around Britain and the world through and Central America from 1881 to and the public enhanced access to the artefacts. A 1894. He created some of the first sketches and surveys loans hub will allow the BM to lend objects directly to of important Maya sites and took some of the earliest local, national and international venues. In November photographs of the buildings and monuments. 2018, Wokingham Borough Council granted planning To make this amazing resource widely available, permission for the 15,000sq.m. single-storey building the BM has been collaborating with Google & designed by John McAslan + Partners. Construction Culture to preserve and disseminate the collection is due to begin in 2019. digitally. Maudslay’s own use of dry-plate photography The public benefit of such research is an was cutting-edge technology, and the BM is following important focus, especially where there is a keen suit. Visit the website and one can zoom in on high- visitor interest. One popular project in 2018 brought resolution images of 3D scans. Epigraphers are studying together significant objects from the BM galleries the inscriptions. Archaeologists are reconstructing sites and the towering circle of Stonehenge. The using Maudslay’s records. The material on partnership with English Heritage saw the findings has been released, with casts and photographs from displayed in a compelling exhibition at the Stonehenge Mexico following through 2019. ‘It was the unexpected Visitor Centre: Making connections: Stonehenge in its magnificence of the monuments,’ Maudslay wrote, ‘that prehistoric world. The displays set early artefacts of stone, Transforming an led me to devoting so many years to securing copies of chalk, gold and bronze from Britain in the wider Fragile glass-plate negatives them, which, preserved in the museums of Europe and context of the peoples of Europe. Farming techniques are scanned and digitised. America, are likely to survive the originals.’ could be shared across thousands of miles. Some The late 19th-century images In January 2019, the BM launched the Santo practices emerged only in specific regions: in , by archaeologist Alfred Maudslay provide a singular Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Past and present mysterious decorated stone balls were hand-carved, record of ancient monuments Research, made possible by the generosity of Alejandro With Google Arts & Culture, their purpose still undetermined. The research into in Mexico and Central & Charlotte Santo Domingo, and Mrs Julio Mario the BM is disseminating Britain’s heritage continues and will feature in a future America. Santo Domingo with Andrés & Lauren Santo the Maudslay archive in BM exhibition in London on Stonehenge. new ways. Here, a 2018 Domingo. The BM cares for an important collection photo of the Temple of the Conservation and scientific research on Britain’s of Latin American archaeological, historical and Sun in Palenque, Mexico history is closely allied to the BM’s Portable Antiquities BM in Berkshire contemporary material, which spans more than 10,000 is juxtaposed with an 1891 Scheme, which aims to record archaeological finds A new British Museum years of human history. These objects encapsulate image of the same structure. made in England and Wales, no matter how small. Archaeological Research some of the most remarkable narratives of cultural BM scientists use non-destructive X-ray fluorescence Collection is being built near Reading. These design development on the planet. to determine metal composition in cases of Treasure. proposals are by architects The Centre at the BM will support work on Complex work can take place off-site. In August 2018, John McAslan + Partners. this collection through collaboration with research a BM team travelled to Salisbury to excavate and lift communities in Latin America and the UK, ensuring a fragile ceramic pot discovered in a nearby field. It the conversation about the artefacts draws on a great turned out to contain an astonishing : over 1,800 variety of voices from around the world. Roman coins of the 3rd century AD. The Bourne Valley Hoard was quickly featured in Hoards: the hidden Britain history of ancient Britain, a BM touring exhibition that Future research into the collection is set to be opened in Salisbury, helping Salisbury Museum transformed by a brand new BM facility. The British attract public interest to begin fundraising for the Museum Archaeological Research Collection (BM_ hoard’s acquisition. ARC) is a significant new storage centre that will preserve and provide access to many objects from the Museum’s world-renowned collections of ancient sculpture, mosaics, archaeological assemblages and historic casts.

22 23 Enabling more people to see objects from national collections is undeniably a good : visitors don’t need to travel vast distances to see and learn from the outstanding cultural objects we are privileged to have here in the UK.

Apollo magazine on showing collections from the BM and elsewhere across Britain

July 2018

Exhibitions across Britain BM tours in the UK included an exhibition on LGBTQ histories, in which these badges from the BM collection were shown. The show was seen in Oxford, and Bolton. National tours and loans

Touring exhibitions from the BM were seen around the country, supported by the Foundation in memory of Harry M Weinrebe. Shown in Salisbury and Belfast was a new collaboration between Salisbury Museum and the BM, Hoards: a hidden history of ancient Britain. The exhibition examined the many archaeological treasures that have made the news over the years, including one just discovered in 2018, to ask fundamental questions about who buried them and why. Celebrated hoards from both collections featured and finds dispersed among several museums were reunited. The tour continues through 2019 .

Desire, love, identity: exploring LGBTQ histories was a BM exhibition that proved so popular in London that a touring show was created. The exhibits – from protest badges to an 11,000-year-old stone sculpture of two lovers found in – created what the Oxford Mail called ‘a tour-de-force of global queer history’. After Oxford, the exhibition journeyed to Nottingham and Bolton.

Enduring love An 11,000-year-old stone sculpture found near Bethlehem was among the objects that toured the UK in an exhibition exploring LGBTQ histories. (Height 10 cm)

At a national partners event Steve Miller, head Hoard of Roman silver coins of Norfolk Museums Service, noted: ‘We know from The Selby Hoard, found in experience that the support of the BM can have a Yorkshire in 2010, was one of diverse range of benefits, including a direct on many examined in a national partnership tour. Hoards: the local visitor economy.’ Such effects could be seen a hidden history of ancient in enormously popular tours such as Viking: rediscover Britain was seen in Salisbury the legend, a collaboration with . and Belfast before travelling Opened by historian Michael Wood when it travelled to Buxton, the Isle of Wight to The Atkinson, Southport, the exhibition has been and in 2019. seen by more than 100,000 people since its launch in 2017. Dressed to impress: and Japanese men’s fashion continued its tour, during which visitors could try Japanese textile dyeing, at the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, or soap-carving of netsuke, at the Worthing Museum & Art Gallery. Nearly 90,000 people saw the exhibition of portraits and other works by German artist Käthe Kollwitz, a BM collaboration with the Ikon

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Gallery in Birmingham. The tour has proved Castle in County Durham, where a new Faith so popular, it will be shown in London in 2019. Museum is being constructed. A popular Spotlight Loan, designed to draw new A new national Skills for the Future training audiences to the host museums, was Rodin: rethinking programme, supported by The National Lottery the fragment. The tour focused on the interest of ‘the Heritage Fund, was launched in 2018. For Museum fragment’, both in ancient works that survive only Futures, eight young people, aged 18–24, were selected in part and as a deliberate strategy by later artists to for a year-long paid traineeship that focused on digital capitalise on the suggestive power of the fragmentary. skills in museum collections. They worked in museums A bronze cast of Rodin’s celebrated sculpture The across the country, from to Stowmarket. Thinker – organised by the BM as a loan to each venue Over the next three years, Museum Futures will work from the in Glasgow while it is with 27 trainees based in at least 20 partner museums closed for refurbishment – was displayed alongside across Britain. objects from the BM’s own collection in Kendal, Bath and Walsall. Training young people In 2018/19 the BM loaned over 2,800 objects to At the start of their 105 venues around the UK. The loans were used in placements, Museum Futures The Thinker, 1880–1 special displays, exhibitions and thematic galleries trainees from around the UK spent time together at the The centrepiece of the in other museums to enhance what they showed. BM to learn about digital BM national tour Rodin: In Newmarket, at the National Heritage Centre for preservation and digital rethinking the fragment Horseracing and Sporting Art, an exhibition on skills related to museum was this bronze cast of collections. The Thinker, on loan from English artist James Ward drew on the Fitzwilliam the Burrell Collection Museum and as well as the BM’s substantial body in Glasgow. (Height 71 cm) of prints by Ward, which the artist donated to the Museum in 1818. The BM’s Knowledge Share programme strives to widen expertise around the country by sharing skills, National partnerships and training often in a peer-to-peer context. It is supported by the Vivmar Foundation, who generously agreed to renew Object Journeys invited UK community partners to their funding until 2021. One scheme, Knowledge explore museum collections and work collaboratively Exchange, is now in its ninth year. It offers professional with museum staff, devising displays and events development for museum staff around the UK, who that broaden the stories museums tell. The three-year spend time at other institutions to see how they project was funded by The National Lottery Heritage operate. In 2018/19, participants in Oldham, Jersey, Fund. In 2018, the final stages were presented in Middlesbrough, Stowmarket and York were drawn London and Brighton. At the BM, where earlier exhibits from a variety of departments, including conservation, were developed in partnership with members of the documentation and security. One participant wrote: Kiribati and Somali diaspora, a multi-cultural group of ‘I really felt like part of the team while on my exchange London residents created a display showcasing the . . . Thanks again for an amazing experience.’ A pilot importance of family across the globe. In Brighton, scheme aimed specifically at Visitors Services staff with support from the BM, community curators began in 2018. Each participant in the Visitor Services created three new displays as part of the Fashioning Knowledge Circle undertakes a week-long placement at Africa programme. The participants explored African another institution. style, fabric and fashion using new acquisitions, Community programming The Money and Medals Network, whose work historic pieces and specially commissioned Drawing on the BM collection, throughout England is supported using public funding documentary films. Object Journeys worked by , shares expertise on the UK’s with a number of groups to numismatic collections. Training sessions in 2018/19 create community displays Longer-term partnership galleries combine BM in Leicester, Manchester, examined military and commemorative medals in artefacts and expertise with that of other museums and London and Brighton (above). Liverpool and Belfast and Scottish coins and medals in are supported by the Dorset Foundation. The goal is Glasgow. The Network’s commitment to mapping the to produce the best possible displays around the UK. UK’s coins and medals collections focused on the South Ongoing gallery partnerships included work with as well as Scotland, where BM staff Manchester Museum, Norwich Castle and Auckland visited museums in Kirkwall and Stromness in Orkney.

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Other learning events supported UK museum gold around 1000–750 BC and found in Shropshire. staff in a variety of areas. The BM held seminars in Other remarkable PAS finds included a Romano- London on Egyptian papyri and on the conservation British phallic figurine (discovered in ), of drawings. Delegates from 17 museums an Anglo-Saxon gold mount featuring a and fine and universities attended a seminar on working with wire beading (Isle of Wight) and a medieval pilgrim collections from the ancient Mediterranean. Interns badge showing St William of Gellone, canonised in from were welcomed to the BM in summer 1066 (Yorkshire). 2018, while a two-day visit by curators and visitor In November 2018, BM metals conservator Pippa experience staff from Tullie House Museum & Art Pearce was awarded an MBE for her extensive work Gallery looked at how the BM engages the public in its on PAS and Treasure finds. The 2018 PAS conference, galleries. To support public health outcomes and widen Recording Britain’s Past, celebrated 15 years of the scheme. Future knowledge access to the cultural sector, the BM is a lead partner Panellists included archaeologists Recording archaeological in the Age Friendly Museums Network, supported and Carenza Lewis. Held in Peterborough, the PASt finds through the PAS by the Baring Foundation. Events in 2018 included a Explorers conference The Bigger Picture, supported by ensures Britain’s history is preserved for all. Recent finds conference in Dudley, at which colleagues shared ideas The National Lottery Heritage Fund, examined the included this outstanding gold about well-being and heritage. When museums around many ways in which PAS data is being used in bulla or pendant, found in the country marked Age Friendly Museums Day, the research, and how the work of volunteers and self- Shropshire. (37 x 47 cm) BM organised creative workshops, dance performances recorders is shaping our understanding of the past. and an art installation on ageing. Wider interest in the PAS model has spread around the world. Activities in 2018 included an international conference in Slovenia and the establishment in Research in the UK Finland of a public finds recording system, on which PAS experts from the BM are advising. Staff are also The BM undertakes extensive research around closely involved in advising on a DCMS-led review of Britain. With the Jorvik Viking Centre and Ashmolean the Treasure Act 1996, which may in future widen its Museum, staff have been studying the Watlington definition to ensure even more finds are able to Hoard of Viking silver coins, discovered in Oxfordshire be acquired by public museums. in 2015. A display and lecture in York shared the latest Studies of British archaeology included an findings, and talks from a study day in Oxford will examination with colleagues from Oxford and King’s appear as a research publication setting the hoard in College London of a Roman foundry hoard discovered its historical context. in in 2017 and reported to the PAS. The fragments include , a skillet handle and Fieldwork on ancient Britain is looking at areas of early a complete figurine of a dog. At Torquay Museum, human occupation, some over 800,000 years old, with the BM and the University of Exeter helped to create support from the Calleva Foundation, Leverhulme an exhibition based on recent excavations at Ipplepen Trust and others. The collaborative work with Queen in . The BM series of Research Publications in Mary and University College 2018 included a study of excavations of a Roman London takes place at sites in Suffolk, Norfolk and discovered in Ashwell, in 2002, published Jersey. A study of handaxe assemblages in Britain, with the support of the Thriplow Charitable Trust. France and Spain, with European funding from Marie The finds, reported under the Treasure Act, reveal Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), is modelling evidence from the 3rd or AD of an open- human colonisation in western Europe. With the air Romano-British ritual site, with gold jewellery set Universities of Reading and Manchester, the BM is with gems, and votive plaques dedicated to a previously researching what grave goods can tell us about the unknown goddess, Senuna. Anglo-Saxon gold mount belief systems of prehistoric communities, with funding This 5th-century ornamental from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. In Cambridgeshire, a standing mount, with its fine wire Archaeological finds made by the public in copper-alloy figure made in beading, was found on the England and Wales are recorded through the Portable Britain between AD 43 and Isle of Wight in 2018. The 410 was discovered. Treasure find was reported Antiquities Scheme (PAS), administered by the BM (Height 4 cm) to the Portable Antiquities with National Museum Wales. In 2018, nearly 70,000 Scheme administered by the finds were recorded. Cases of Treasure included an BM. (Diameter 14 cm) outstanding hollow pendant, or bulla, made of sheet

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BM across the UK

The BM works with partners around the UK to ensure loans, partnership galleries, knowledge exchange, public archaeology and training are an effective national resource. Partnerships in 2018/19 took place across the country.

Amesbury, Appledore, Bangor, Barnard Castle, Bath, Belfast, Bexhill-on-Sea, Birmingham, Bishop’s Stortford, Bolton, Brighton, , Bury St Edmunds, Buxton, Cambridge, , Carlisle, Carrickfergus, Cheltenham, Chippenham, Cirencester, Colchester, Compton, Compton Verney, Derby, Derry, Devizes, Dover, Downpatrick, , Dudley, Durham, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Greenway, Hartlepool, Hexham, Hull, Ipswich, Kendal, Kettering, Kilmartin, King’s Lynn, Leeds, Leicester, , Lincoln, Littlehampton, Liverpool, Llanfairpwll, Llangefni, London, Maidstone, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Newark, Newcastle, Newmarket, Norwich, Nottingham, Oakham, Oldham, Orkney, Oxford, Penzance, Peterborough, Plymouth, Preston, Reading, Richmond, Romford, Rotherham, Salford, Salisbury, Sheffield, Shrewsbury, Southport, Stornoway, Stowmarket, Stroud, Sunderland, Swaffham, Swansea, Taunton, Thetford, Torquay, Truro, Walsall, Wellingborough, Welshpool, Weston-super-Mare, Woodbridge, Worksop, Worthing, York

33 We hope to inspire visitors to look beyond the conventional origin story of modern Singapore; to place this story against larger historical and geopolitical developments in the region.

The Straits Times quotes Kennie Ting, director of the Asian Civilisations Museum, on a BM partnership on the history of Singapore

January 2019

Javanese mask, 19th century The BM loaned this dramatic wooden mask to Singapore for a jointly developed exhibition on colonial official Sir and his time in Java, Sumatra and Singapore. (Height 18 cm) International tours and loans

International touring exhibitions from the BM showed the collection to audiences across the globe. At the Hong Kong Museum of History, 220,000 visitors attended An age of luxury: the Assyrians to Alexander to see outstanding objects from the Middle East, Greece and beyond: a gold perfume flask from in the shape of a fish, the head of a worshipper of from , both 2,500 years old. The exhibition and catalogue on the Javanese and Sumatran collections of the colonial official Sir Stamford Raffles and his impact on the politics and art of maritime Southeast Asia were jointly curated with the Asian Civilisations Museum. The exhibition in 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of Raffles’ arrival in Singapore and sets his collections and actions in wider geopolitical contexts.

Cultural exchange is an important benefit of tours based on the BM collection. In Brisbane, an exhibition that used non-invasive technology to delve inside Egyptian mummies attracted 155,000 visitors. Exhibitions in Europe presented ideas about Islamic pilgrimage and American art in the Netherlands and France. A history of the world in 100 objects was loaned to the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes, where in three months it doubled the annual number of visitors. Highlights of European cultural history, on the other hand, travelled to and : an exhibition on medieval Europe drew 170,000 visitors in Quebec; in Nashville and Canberra, over 200,000 people were able to get close up to a head of the emperor and other displays in Rome: city and Classical Europe empire. ABC Radio Canberra encouraged listeners to shown abroad ‘Tune in or turn up’ for a special broadcast from the A BM touring exhibition on exhibition, with BM curator Richard Hobbs and imperial Rome was seen by other experts. Spanish series more than 200,000 people An enormously successful international partnership The BM has been touring in the USA and Australia. several exhibitions across This marble statue of a veiled with “la Caixa” Banking Foundation was renewed and will now run until 2024. As part of the collaboration, Spain. The subjects have priestess is based on images ranged from Greek athletes of , the widowed empress two BM exhibitions toured Spain in 2018/19. Ancient to Egyptian rulers such as the of Augustus. (Height 216 cm) Greeks: athletes, warriors and heroes drew more than king depicted in this basalt 145,000 people in Seville, Zaragoza and Palma. Its statue from Ptolemaic Egypt. displays ranged from black-figure Greek pottery to (Height 105 cm) a Greek bronze of defeating the Nemean . Ancient Egypt proved a huge excitement. By the end of March 2019, over 350,000 people had visited the CaixaForum exhibition Pharaoh: king of Egypt in Barcelona, Madrid and Girona. Overall, in 2018/19 the BM drew on the far reaches of the collection to circulate over 2,400 objects to

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79 venues outside the UK. Material relating to the The International Training Programme (ITP), now in Grand Ronde indigenous community of Oregon was its 13th year, continued to expand. With 276 alumni loaned to the Chachalu Museum and Cultural Center from 43 countries, the ITP welcomed colleagues in the USA. In Tasmania, works by the expatriate from Azerbaijan, , Philippines and for English artist Thomas Bock shaped an exhibition of his the first time in 2018. For the annual summer school important drawings of Australia and its people in the in the UK, 23 fellows visited the BM and one of 11 19th century. To mark the anniversary of the Korean partner museums around Britain, looking for new Kingdom of Goryeo, founded in 918, the BM loaned ideas and skills to develop their museum services at artefacts to the National Museum of Korea. From home. ITP+ courses carried that training abroad. A neanderthals in to the Age of Reason in Mexico four-day workshop at the Museum in Aswan, City, exhibitions around the world drew on the BM Egypt looked at recent trends in museum interpretation. collection to enhance the stories they wished to tell. A course at Chhatrapati Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) in Mumbai focused on the role museums can have in education and social change. International partnerships and training The programme encourages alumni to support one another via the ITP network, sharing opportunities for The BM’s extensive international ties support efforts networking, research and museum-related activities. to identify and protect antiquities in places of conflict. The BM’s national Knowledge Exchange In 2018 the BM was instrumental in helping the Iraqi programme, in which UK museum staff widen their authorities retrieve artefacts that had been looted experience by spending time with colleagues at other in 2003 from the site of Tello (ancient ). The institutions, has offered a model for international 5,000-year-old objects – stamp seals, pendants, clay skill-sharing. In 2019, the BM hosted a curator from cones inscribed to the ‘mighty warrior’ Ningirsu – had the National Museum of Denmark who is looking been seized in a Metropolitan Police operation. In at increasing digital access to collections for source Kabul, a decorated silver flask of 2300 to 2000 BC communities. As part of academic collaborations with was returned, after the UK Border Force asked the BM UK universities, the BM co-supervised PhD students to identify it. Both stories received worldwide media across a broad field of international study, from Chinese coverage. ‘Working closely with police, the UK Border neolithic painted pottery to how 20th-century postcards Force and other agencies,’ reported the Telegraph, the influenced how we think about Israel and Palestine. British Museum ‘has helped to recover thousands of Key research projects involve dialogue with experts looted antiquities from Afghanistan alone since 2003.’ around the globe. The International Parthian Coin Project finalised a forthcoming research publication on early coins from with colleagues from the Training at the BM Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna and the National In 2018, the BM’s highly Museum in Tehran. Collaborative scholarship on the successful International ancient Middle East won two American awards in Training Programme 2018, from the American Schools of Oriental Research welcomed fellows from 17 countries to spend time and the Archaeological Institute of America. with staff at the BM and at A major conservation project dedicated to Korean museums around the UK. art in the BM, supported by Amorepacific Corporation, has been drawing on the expertise of colleagues in Korea. A Chinese art forum, funded by the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation, was attended by 35 scholars from Taipei, Los Angeles and elsewhere. To support colleagues around the world, BM scientists examined Burmese lacquer in Pisa and, at the Nicholson Museum in Sydney, analysed fragments of wooden tables and offerings of seeds and grapes discovered in a group of tombs in Jericho.

38 39 Egyptian , 570–526 BC This bronze seal, bearing the cartouche of the pharaoh Amasis, was used to stamp jar-sealings. Copper from north-west was probably used in its manufacture. Recent scientific analyses of sources of copper and lead used in the production of metal and faience objects from Late Period Egypt (664–332 BC) are offering valuable insights into the metal trade networks of the ancient Mediterranean. (Height 5 cm)

Shared expertise International research with colleagues in Australia included an examination of finds from a group of Bronze Age tombs in Jericho. Offerings found in the tombs included bowls of pomegranate seeds and grapes. Research across the globe The British Museum Review 2018/19

Work on Africa, the Americas, Oceania and beyond Fieldwork in Naukratis, Egypt’s first Greek- is set to take a new direction with the launch of the Mediterranean port city, unearthed the earliest levels BM’s Endangered Material Knowledge Programme, of the site in the areas of and Greek supported by Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet sanctuaries and the port’s harbour. The work was Rausing and Peter Baldwin. As societies change, local supported by the Honor Frost Foundation. Publication knowledge that has helped communities thrive is in of the findings is in preparation. danger of being lost. The programme will document In southern Siberia, the BM took part in an the long histories of the ‘made world’: how people across archaeological project to document an important the globe have used the natural resources around them cemetery at Oglakhty. The work followed on from to create their distinctive homes and social spaces. last year’s BP exhibition Scythians: warriors of ancient Recording African culture drew in several projects Siberia, which displayed spectacular funerary masks, in 2018/19. A six-month curatorship funded by a veil and other finds from the site. Surveys of the the Ruddock Foundation for the Arts enabled the area – a protected nature reserve to which access is BM to catalogue important collections of historical normally forbidden – were accompanied by study visits photographs from West Africa. Collaborative doctoral to museums at Krasnoyarsk and Abakan, as well as research looked at the history of collecting in East and the in St Petersburg, where West Africa. In , BM director Hartwig Fischer previously excavated finds were kept. and Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Khaled El- Extended post-excavation study is an essential stage Scarab, 600–570 BC Enany opened the exhibition, Capturing Egypt on glass: of all fieldwork, especially as part of ongoing work on A study of metal and faience with training and assistance from the BM, staff at the the wider collection. Ancient Sudanese textiles from objects from Egypt showed , supported by Arcadia, documented Kulubnarti are being conserved and recorded by the that this scarab from Naukratis incorporated lead a unique archive of photographic glass negatives. The BM in partnership with the University of Glasgow. mined in Laurion, south of EU Delegation to Egypt announced a €3.1m grant The programme includes training students to develop . (Length 1.5 cm) to a consortium of European museums to help Egypt practical conservation, observation and documentation transform the Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square skills. A pilot project, which analysed metal and faience in Cairo over the next two years. The group includes objects, published its results on the origins of metals in museums from Paris, Leiden, and Turin, as Late Period Egypt, a time of intense contact between well as the BM. Egypt and the Mediterranean world. Working with Late Antique textiles from Egypt, the BM pioneered a new non-destructive technique Research across the globe using different wavelengths of light to produce images that show the distribution of various dyes. Formerly, a Archaeological work took place in Sudan, Egypt tiny sample of the textile would have to be taken, and further afield. At Dangeil, Sudan, a wall painting if analysis was required. Using the new method, a discovered on a monumental gate in 2015 was child’s sock of AD 200–400 revealed cheerful stripes Egyptian socks conserved and removed for eventual display in a local made from madder (red), woad (blue) and weld (yellow). with stripes museum. The fragment shows a repeating of As reported the story, also published in These multispectral lotus flowers and is one of the largest Kushite wall the scientific journal PLOS ONE in October 2018, images of a child’s sock found in a non-funerary context. ‘the ancient Egyptians famously gave us paper and from Antinoupolis (dated to AD 200–400) enabled The exciting find sheds light on how the Kushites the pyramids, but were also early adopters of the BM scientists to distinguish decorated their . stripy sock.’ non-invasively the natural Discovery in Sudan dyes used to create the At Dangeil, excavations have A project looking at the deep history of the region colourful stripes. uncovered a decorative wall in Egypt, supported by the British Council’s Newton- painting. It was found on the Musharafa Fund, focused on the village of Shutb. monumental gate of a 1st- century AD temple dedicated Excavation and surveys were undertaken to ascertain to the god . the settlement layers in a site inhabited for at least 4,000 years. Targeted study focused on an individual material – pottery, glass – while capacity-building activities for local people, to promote a shared sense of this important history, included inventing a card game, ‘Make Stone Speak’, using BM objects from Asyut.

42 43 The British Museum’s new Islamic World gallery … in its breathtaking scope, could transform many people’s understanding of what and Islamic culture mean.

The Financial Times reviews the new Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic world

October 2018

The Islamic World The new gallery explores the cultures of the Islamic world through historical artefacts such as this steel plaque of 1693–4, with its elegant inscription from the Qur’an (27:30) written in the thuluth style of . (35 x 26 cm) The British Museum Review 2018/19

New galleries

In October 2018, the BM opened the Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic world to enthusiastic public acclaim. The refurbished rooms, designed by architects Stanton Williams using sustainably sourced European oak, were generously funded by the Albukhary Foundation and allow visitors to engage with the objects as never before. Interior windows feature screens specially designed for the gallery by Saudi artist Ahmad Angawi. New cases permit the display of light-sensitive objects – works on paper, textiles – which will be changed regularly.

Islam has played a significant role in great civilisations as a faith, political system and culture. The new gallery redisplays the BM’s world-class collection of Islamic material culture from the beginnings of Islam through to its wide dissemination since the 7th century from Nigeria to . The great medieval dynasties are explored in the first room, highlighting connections with nearby galleries relating to Byzantium, the Vikings and Islamic Spain. The second room introduces the three major dynasties that dominated the Islamic world from the 16th century: the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals. An area for special exhibitions explored in its opening display the , organised by the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia. The far wall features 21 Stones, a series of paintings commissioned from British artist , with support from the BM’s Contemporary and Modern Middle Eastern Art Acquisitions Group (CaMMEA). Their explosions of blue stamped text evoke the stones cast by pilgrims at the devil as one of the rituals of the annual Hajj pilgrimage. ‘This gallery is a kind of miracle,’ concluded the Guardian. ‘It sees beyond individual objects to grasp and communicate the principles and intellectual power that give its infectious harmony and abundance.’ Generous support from the Mitsubishi Corporation Ancient Japan permitted the BM to undertake a nine-month This 5,000-year-old Japanese transformation of the Mitsubishi Corporation flame pot is about the same Japanese Galleries, which reopened in September age as Stonehenge. The cooking vessel can be seen 2018. Improvements include an elegant new ceiling, in the Mitsubishi Corporation a new oak floor, LED lighting and upgraded air Japanese Galleries, which conditioning. The BM’s Japanese collection is the most reopened in 2018. comprehensive in Europe and the updated gallery tells (Height 31 cm) the history of Japan through outstanding objects – a flame pot of 3000 BC of the Jōmon people; a full set of samurai armour of the 1700s; a 21st-century lacquered box by Living National Treasure Murose Kazumi, in which exquisite traditional craft is revisited in a modern idiom. The galleries have retained their most popular

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exhibits, including the Urasenke Foundation teahouse. Mitsubishi, who have supported the gallery for ten years, committed to a further ten years’ support.

The collection

One of only two surviving cartoons by is in the BM collection. The artist drew the Epifania in the 1550s for his collaborator and biographer . At 233 x 166 cm, the depiction of the and Child and attendant figures is formed of 26 joined sheets of paper mounted on a heavy pine panel. In 2018, a major project began to assess Michelangelo’s work with a view to evaluating its long-term conservation. High-resolution mapping of its condition will determine future treatment as well as provide detailed information about the drawing’s composite structure. The project was supported by a gift made in memory of Melvin R. Seiden.

Epifania, 1550–3 Additions to the collection in 2018/19 ranged from A major project was an Italian ceramic of the Madonna della Marina (c.1600) undertaken by the BM to a 2012 painting by . The British- to study and conserve Ghanaian artist’s work – part of his series Queens of the Michelangelo’s celebrated drawing. (233 x 166 cm) Undead – celebrates female military commanders from Africa. As part of the Treasure process, three bronze bracelets of 1400 to 1100 BC were acquired from a hoard discovered at Hurstborne Priors in . A history of Bollywood over the past three decades was represented in a single collection of over 900 printed items of cinema memorabilia. Donations included Egyptian striker Salah’s football boots, a tenner with the face of Princess by , and a silver coronation medal of Edward VI of 1547. A collection of textiles from across Africa was given, as was a 19th-century ‘montre à tact’ watch by Breguet which allows the time to be determined by Madonna della Marina, touch. Prints by contemporary Chinese artists were c.1600 generously donated, as was a complete set of prints This ceramic figure acquired by British artist Geoffrey Clarke, accepted in lieu of in 2018 reproduces an Italian inheritance tax by the UK government. The Japanese of the Virgin Mary with the dead Christ. In the early collection acquired a major gift of 19th-century 16th century, Mary was said portraits of Kabuki actors by Utagawa . to have appeared on the Bequests included the Lloyd collection of , among beach at Chioggia after a them 11 London-pattern table clocks built by emigré storm, inspiring the image and Huguenot makers in the 17th and 18th centuries. making the town into a place of pilgrimage. (Height 36 cm)

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The great French sculptor Auguste Rodin confessed that he was profoundly influenced by his Greek predecessor Pheidias, the 5th-century BC artist who conceived the sculptures. In Rodin and the art of , sponsored by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the BM moved a selection of the Greek originals out of the Parthenon gallery and juxtaposed them with 90 works in marble, bronze and plaster by Rodin, almost all on loan from the Musée Rodin in Paris. Rodin regularly visited London to seek inspiration. ‘In my spare time,’ he declared, ‘I simply haunt the British Museum.’ The show was critically acclaimed. The Guardian, naming it one of the top art shows of 2018, called it ‘a life-changing delight’. Nearly 120,000 people attended.

Some of the most beautiful and world-renowned objects in the BM come from ancient Assyria. For the BP exhibition I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria – supported by BP, with logistics partner IAG Cargo – the BM complemented its collection with loans from Armenia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Italy and Russia to show the life and legacy of Assyria’s last great ruler. Delicate ivories and extravagant gold ornaments conveyed how the elite lived in ornate splendour. Wall paintings and glazed bricks evoked the glory of Assyria’s great palaces and cities such as Nineveh and . Large carved reliefs were brought to life by illuminating details to tell the stories of battles, conquest and political wrangling. The state of these Iraqi sites today Rodin and ancient Greece – and BM-supported measures to save and recover A major exhibition set cultural heritage in Iraq – were described in the final sculptures from the Parthenon displays. As the Evening Standard noted: ‘In 2014 [Daesh] alongside works by the French artist Auguste Rodin, Protesting objects . . . wilfully destroyed more than 70 percent of the including his celebrated The exhibition I object archaeology of the city of Ashurbanipal. Be grateful, sculpture The Kiss. (Height showed how objects could be then, as you go round this exhibition, that these things, 135 cm, 185 cm) used to oppose regimes such at least, survive.’ The show was seen by 140,000 people. as that of Joseph Mobutu in the Democratic Republic of Objects that made a protest were given a platform Assyrian king, Congo, where this raffia cloth in the Citi exhibition I object: ’s search for dissent, 645–635 BC was made in the late 20th which was supported by Citi and seen by 72,000 The Assyrian empire was century. (73 x 74 cm) visitors. Private Eye editor Ian Hislop delved into the BM explored in an exhibition on collection looking for objects that ‘question the official king Ashurbanipal. This detail from a wall panel found in a narrative and put an alternative view’. Some were palace in Iraq shows the king overtly political – sharply satirical prints of the 18th hunting on horseback. century; defaced pennies of the early 20th circulating the message ‘Votes for Women’. Others insinuated dissent more subtly: the printer who silently dropped the word ‘not’ from the commandment prohibiting adultery in a Bible of 1631; the symbolic objection of carrying a yellow umbrella in Hong Kong. Protest was

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revealed as an essential human expression of individual Learning programmes freedom or as a collective fight against oppression, often humorous, at times revolutionary. The BM delivers accessible, world-class learning experiences for all. By connecting and representing Resurrection Story with diverse audiences, BM programmes enable visitors to Patrons, 2017 learn from one another through our shared histories. This detail is from a triptych by American artist Kara With support from the Greengross Family, the BM Walker. The featured has launched a new summer programme for young in a 2018/19 exhibition of prints and drawings recently people, starting in 2019. Participants aged 16–24 will acquired by the BM. co-design the programme with the BM, supported by the newly appointed Greengross Family Young People’s Producer. A young people’s collective will be hosted at the BM and participants will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the working life of the BM and Artists took the centre stage in a number of the stories of the collection. free exhibitions. Witnesses: emigré medallists in Britain, Over 300,000 pupils visited the BM as part of sponsored by Spink, showed over six centuries how formal education programmes. For teachers, the BM British figures and events were commemorated through organises preview events to enable them to plan prior the skills and sensibility of immigrant artists. Around to visiting with pupils. For the exhibition Rodin and 150 prints and drawings from the collection featured the art of ancient Greece, 100 teachers attended to hear in New acquisitions: Gozzoli to Kara Walker, supported talks by the curators and learning staff, discuss the by Mr & Mrs Edward D. Baker and the late Mrs curriculum links and access teaching resources. The Marigold Ann Chamberlin. The selection of graphic BM’s innovative Relationship and Sex Education works added to the collection over the last five years programme for secondary schools attracted a Prize medal, 2001 showcased the growth in the BM’s holdings of Picasso growing number of bookings. Linked to the National Emigré medallists in Britain prints, thanks largely to Hamish Parker’s donation Curriculum the gallery-based workshops explore sex were the subject of a display of the 347 Series, and the expanded representation and identity through time and across cultures, using that included this medal of Italian 19th- and 20th-century prints, due to the the collection to provoke discussions between staff and depicting an , made for Oxford University by Polish generosity of an anonymous donor. In 2019, a display students on contemporary issues. artist Danuta Solowiej. on marked the 350th anniversary of the (Diameter 8 cm) great Dutch artist’s death, while the use of the postcard Digital starting points as an art form since the 1960s could be appreciated in The Samsung Great Court an exhibition of political, often playful works by Games encourage families Johns, Gilbert & George, Rachel Whiteread and others. to engage with the collection using digital technology. A catalogue of the postcards written by the collection’s Postcards as art donor, Jeremy Cooper, was also published. A 2019 exhibition examined The Asahi Shimbun Displays take a fresh look at how artists have used artefacts in light of contemporary debates or introduce postcards as an art form. Examples included polemical an unusual corner of the collection. New discoveries works by South Atlantic about ancient Iraq juxtaposed with photographs by Souvenirs (top) and Peter Ursula Schulz-Dornburg featured in No man’s land Kennard, who inserts cruise (see pp.14–17), while modern Egypt’s use of its past missiles into ’s to reinvent itself – from posters to food packets – The Hay Wain. (11 x 15 cm) was shown in The past is present: becoming Egyptian in the For adult learners, where better to learn a language 20th century. Porcelain, prints and other objects from than among a collection that spans cultures globally, Japan, China and South Asia suggested how encounters past and present? In 2018/19 the BM introduced a with Europeans were perceived in What is Europe? new strand of language courses in collaboration with Views from Asia. Feeding history: the politics of food looked the adult-education college City Lit. They include at the control of food resources, from ancient Egypt to Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Arabic as well as contemporary reflections on conflicts triggered by the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, Latin and Sanskrit. partitioning of land. Each year over 3,000 people, many of whom are new

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to the UK, also attend the BM’s ESOL (English for Family programmes throughout the year provided Speakers of Other Languages) programme. fun for all ages. For under-fives, Little Feet included Over 50,000 adults attended lectures, debates, its first bilingual session in French and English in courses, workshops and performances at the BM this connection with the exhibition on Rodin. Family labels year and over 1,000 young adults took part in mass for use with children were designed into the Albukhary meditation and mindfulness events. Guest speakers Foundation Gallery of the Islamic world alongside over the year included Michael Palin, Grayson Perry, objects such as birds and animals placed at floor Artemis Cooper, Janina Ramirez, David Olusoga, level. Two new museum-wide trails explored famous Peter Frankopan, , Jenny Uglow, faces and the influence of African culture. The Helen Dan Snow and Japanese Living National Treasure Hamlyn Trust kindly renewed its funding to update Murose Kazumi. and print the BM’s Museum-wide family trails, which are free to visitors. Two new trails are being developed exploring the cultures of Africa and Japan. To celebrate the opening of the Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic world, a large- scale weekend of events attracted over 6,000 visitors, including young BAME (Black, Asian and minority ethnic) visitors and their families, many of whom were British Muslims. Activities included talks, storytelling, crafts, whirling dervishes and music from the London Syrian Ensemble. A specially devised Halal food menu was available, as were dedicated prayer spaces. Audience feedback was very positive. New programming to widen access included ‘relaxed’ talks and drawing workshops for those Friday Lates at the BM with autistic spectrum conditions, sensory and The graphic power of communication disorders and learning disabilities. calligraphy was demonstrated The events were supported by the Lord Leonard and at the BM’s free Friday Late, Celebrating the Islamic Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation. Activities for hard- World. to-reach groups included free community viewings of In April 2018, the BM staged a major music festival. special exhibitions and the new Albukhary Foundation Europe and the world was supported by the German Gallery of the Islamic world. The events welcomed over Federal Foreign Office and organised in collaboration 3,500 people from supplementary schools, charities, with the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen . Two adult learning centres, refugee support groups and Europe and the world weeks of concerts from across the globe were presented community centres local to the BM. Performances in the BM’s in association with BBC Radio 3 and featured on A regular programme of outreach workshops is two-week music festival its flagship contemporary music programme, Music offered across London, engaging those who cannot ranged from a retelling of Matters. A five-star Observer review praised the festival’s access the physical site easily. The workshops take place through traditional Chinese opera to medieval ‘visionary ambition and flair, its style of programming in care homes, hospices and community centres. Special Japanese gagaku. Previews unlike any existing UK festival.’ events included a dance work created and performed by for the festival included a Many events marked political occasions and cultural older adults with Counterpoint Dance Company and concert of West African connections. For the meeting of the Commonwealth an art installation in the Great Court created over three music in the Sainsbury Heads of Government in London in April 2018, the months by ten community organisations in partnership Africa Galleries. BM organised gallery talks about the nations of the with the Mary Ward Centre. commonwealth and a concert by the Commonwealth Volunteer-led activities remain a crucial engagement Youth Orchestra and Choir. Dance performances in for a wide range of visitors: 40,000 people participated the Great Court, a sold-out film screening and a panel in Eye-Opener tours of the BM in 2018/19. At Hands- on inspired leadership marked the 100th anniversary on desks, they can handle real objects in the galleries. of Nelson Mandela’s birth. For Black History Month, In 2018, the BM volunteers marked 25 years of leading Emeritus BM Trustee joined South tours in the BM. The tours have expanded from a single African writer Leeto Thale for an afternoon of gallery in 1993 to more than 15 tours daily across the poetry readings. BM today.

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Digital and publishing

The BM is pleased to announce the continuation of its partnership with Samsung for the next five years to provide digital learning experiences for schools, teachers and families. In April 2018, the award-winning Samsung Digital Discovery Centre (SDDC) won first place in the ‘Best Science & Technology’ category for London in the first annual Hoop Awards. This year over 17,000 schoolchildren have participated. Schools can choose from 16 interactive workshops, including three self-led sessions supplied on Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 tablets, and three virtual visits delivered remotely to schools from the BM using video- conferencing technology.

Activities for young people Over 17,000 schoolchildren participated in activities in the BM’s award-winning Samsung Digital Discovery Centre.

The SDDC weekend programme hosted over 2,300 families throughout the year. Activities include Colour the collection, where visitors get to see museum sculptures in their original colourful splendour and then create their own inspired designs, and Build Roman Britain in , inspired by ’s Wall and other Roman constructions. Digital engagement inside the galleries is increasing. Special BM sound and visual materials were created to enhance the visitor experience in the new Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic world and the Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries. Self-led tours using the BM Audio Guide, sponsored by Korean Air, continued to be popular. The Mandarin version

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now outsells all other languages combined, with with fellow satirists , Roger Law and 112,000 Audio Guides hired in 2018 (51%). For the others. Three new BM films, for the series Making Beauty BP exhibition I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of made possible with support from JTI, introduced artists Assyria, the BM launched a Curators’ Commentary. from Japan on the BM’s YouTube channel. Other BM Over 3,000 people downloaded the commentary from short films broadcast on YouTube ranged from a lesson iTunes, Google Play Music and Spotify. in how to write cuneiform to the conservation of a The BM’s overall social media audience grew Japanese hanging scroll by Kitagawa . Popular by 12%, with fresh content on the YouTube channel features include Curator’s Corner and a cooking series, attracting nearly twice the number of followers. Interest Pleasant Vices, with food historian Tasha Marks. in the forthcoming Manga exhibition was strong. BM publications were featured by book bloggers and Other popular posts took in Banksy and print media from the Daily Mail to the . (Facebook), Mo Salah’s football boots () and the Kate Kellaway in the Guardian admired the ‘endless and a Japanese landscape by Kawase fun’ of the BM children’s book, Mixed up masterpieces: Hasui (Instagram). A video trailer on Facebook for the funny faces, published in collaboration with Nosy Crow. Ashurbanipal exhibition was viewed 368,000 times. So you think you’ve got it bad: a kid’s life in Ancient Egypt For the Rodin exhibition, the BM for the first time was shortlisted for the 2019 Teach Primary Awards. encouraged photography inside the gallery: visitors Praising the catalogue for Rodin and the art of ancient posted images of The Kiss and other works across a Greece, co-published with Thames & Hudson with variety of social media platforms. support from the Foundation, the Literary Online 8m visitors looked at 49m pages on the BM Review concluded that the BM ‘is doing what every website. The most popular short articles on the BM great museum should: using its collection to illuminate blog attracted over 40,000 page views each, including the continuity of human creativity, enabling one part to posts on the Rosetta Stone, Manga and the Assyrian shine light on another.’ BBC journalist Mishal Husain king Ashurbanipal. New pages were designed for the chose The Islamic world: a history in objects as one of her Japanese and Islamic world galleries, as well as a section Manga at the BM books of the year for 2018. highlighting the BM’s work in Africa. During the Posts on Manga drew over course of the year good progress was made in preparing 40,000 page views on the the ground for the updating of the BM’s Collection BM blog. This image from the series Golden Kamuy by Online in 2020 with new and revised records. Noda Satoru features in a The BM’s Chinese-language website (www. 2019 BM exhibition on britishmuseum.org.cn), sponsored by UnionPay, was the popular Japanese BM publications relaunched in August 2018. With redesigned content, graphic stories. The BM produced a wide the website now integrates seamlessly with the BM’s range of publications in WeChat account and features content tailored to its 2018/19, from exhibition catalogues and historical Chinese audiences. In addition to highlighting Chinese studies to books for young collections at the Museum, the website showcases ways children. of connecting with the BM within China – including Modern collecting scholarly works published in Chinese and New acquisitions for the opportunities. This website is visited by an average of BM collection in 2018/19 1.26m users monthly from across mainland China. included Egyptian forward A broader online presence could be found on Mo Salah’s football boots, seen here in the Egyptian Google Arts & Culture, where BM digital displays galleries. included an exhibition on Buddhist art in Myanmar. The BM-designed website for the international exhibition India and the world was handed over to the museum partners in India. The BM welcomed colleagues from Iraq in 2018 to provide training in increasingly essential digital skills. The Iraq Digitisation Training Project was supported by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. Media ties included a three-part BBC Radio 4 series, I, Object! in which Ian Hislop discussed dissent

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Much of the work featured in this Review has benefited from the support of companies, individuals, trusts and foundations. The new Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic world, which opened in October 2018, was made possible by a generous donation from the Albukhary Foundation. Displayed across two magnificent refurbished spaces at the heart of the BM, this new gallery brings together stories from across the Islamic world.

The Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries reopened in September 2018. The nine-month refurbishment was made possible by the generous support of Mitsubishi Corporation, who have sponsored the galleries since 2008. Several new acquisitions in the galleries were made possible by the JTI Japanese Acquisition Fund. JTI’s partnership with the BM has grown this year with support for two posts – the Japanese Paintings Conservator and the Diversity and Equality Manager. A number of benefactors continue to support the BM in caring for and enhancing its collection. Conservation of three boxes of the Sarah Sophia Banks Archive of ephemera has been made possible by the Idlewild Trust following a pilot project supported by the Leche Trust. The Dr Lee MacCormick Edwards Behind-the-scenes at Charitable Foundation is enabling the BM to catalogue the BM the John Christian Archive, while the Elizabeth Cayzer BM Patrons examine a Charitable Trust will be supporting work on the 15th- recently acquired group of to 20th-century volumes of bound prints. It has also 556 Chinese ivory carvings been possible to begin work on the conservation of of the 16th to 20th centuries, an outstanding collection a set of 20th-century Ethiopian and Tanzanian donated to the BM by the paintings thanks to gifts from the Ahmanson Sir Victor Sassoon Foundation and Jack Ryan. The J. Paul Getty Jr Chinese Ivories Trust. Charitable Trust is supporting new storage for the Japanese collections, as are Mr and Mrs Selwyn Alleyne for the Chinese collections. The BM will be able to expand its collection in a new direction thanks to an New Collecting Award for curator Isabel Seligman, who will use the grant to build a collection of contemporary drawings by emerging artists in the UK. The BM received from the Getty Foundation an inaugural Paper Project Curatorship award to develop expertise in this area. The Eyre Family Foundation has enabled the BM to acquire and conserve 75 Roman writing tablets excavated from Vindolanda in Northumberland. The BM remains grateful to the American Friends of the British Museum, both for their support of acquisitions and for the wider scope of our work.

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Support for research publications is enabling new scholarship at the BM to be shared more widely. : Heritage of the World was generously funded by the McCorquodale Charitable Trust. A programme of the J.M. Kaplan Fund supported Makira: A Pictorial History from the , which explores the vivid history of the Melanesian island. A study of the BM’s important Greek and Roman medical collection will be published with funding from the Thackray Medical Research Trust. The Rothschild Foundation, alongside the Goldsmiths’ Company Charity, is supporting publication of conference proceedings on the Royal Tudor Salt. BM research continues to be supported by the European Research Council, , Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Leverhulme Trust. The Museum continues to provide training and development opportunities, both internationally and in the UK, thanks to private support. The International Training Programme benefits from the generosity of a wide range of trusts and individuals, with lead support from the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust. The Gerda Henkel Stiftung is financing a programme of workshops, colloquia and dialogue The BM continues to welcome new Patrons. In Patrons events groups with colleagues from across Africa, which 2018/19 the Patrons’ expanded events and travel At the annual Patrons Open will take place in London and Ghana. The BM and programme included trips accompanied by BM House, a curator’s talk partner institutions across Europe will form a unique curators to Russia, Greece and Jordan. In January explores the fall of Lachish, a city in Judah conquered collaboration with the Egyptian Museum of Cairo 2019, following consultation with Patrons, the Patrons by the Assyrians in 701 BC. (EMC) and the Ministry of Antiquities in Egypt to programme introduced three new Patron Circles, The siege was depicted on transform the EMC. The three-year project will focus providing more ways for Patrons to engage with the reliefs discovered in king on the redisplay of entrance galleries, the drafting of BM. The collective contribution of Patrons to the BM’s ’s palace in the EMC’s masterplan and the showcase of the work continues to be significant. The BM is grateful for Nineveh during excavations in the 19th century. treasures from the Royal Tombs of Tanis. the continued support of the British Museum Friends. Renewed public funding by Arts Council England In 2018/19 the Members’ exclusive events programme will enable the expansion of the Money and Medals was enhanced to include early morning exhibition Network to cover the whole of England. Through new openings, tours and art days. training sessions, online resources and projects, the The BP exhibition I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, Network aims to promote better understanding, care king of Assyria marked the first exhibition sponsorship in and public access for numismatic collections. National a new five-year partnership between BP and the exhibitions and Spotlight Loans are supported by the BM. BP’s significant support enabled the BM to Dorset Foundation in memory of Harry M Weinrebe, realise the full scale and ambition of this remarkable which has agreed to underpin UK activity for a further exhibition, which has been recognised by critics three years. A grant from the Sir and the public alike. Academic Trust will support a Spotlight Loan that will Citi continues its relationship with the BM with tour one of the largest porcelains in the Sir Percival the launch of a five-year exhibition sponsorship series. David Ceramics Collection to three museums across The success of the first Citi exhibition I object: Ian the UK. The Headley Trust continues to support a Hislop’s search for dissent in 2018 will be followed by the series of internships in the Portable Antiquities Scheme Citi exhibition Manga in 2019, expected to be the largest (PAS), and the ongoing generosity of Graham and exhibition of Manga ever held outside of Japan. Johanna Barker provides vital support for the work of the PAS in advancing knowledge of the history and archaeology of England.

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Exhibitions Money and medals: The World Exists To Be CANADA mapping the UK’s Put On A Postcard: artists’ LONDON numismatic collections postcards from 1960 to now Medieval Europe: 22 Mar – 30 Sep 2018 7 Feb – 4 Aug 2019 power and splendour Living with gods: peoples, Sponsored by Spink Canadian Museum of places and worlds beyond History, Gatineau 2 Nov 2017 – Historical baggage: Glenn The Asahi Shimbun 8 Jun 2018 – 20 Jan 2019 8 Apr 2018 Brown and his sources Displays Supported by the 15 May – 22 Jul 2018 CHINA Genesis Foundation A revolutionary legacy: With grateful thanks to Christopher Richard Wynne and Toussaint Louverture An age of luxury: the John Studzinski CBE Nevinson: prints of war 22 Feb – 22 Apr 2018 Assyrians to Alexander and peace Hong Kong Museum of Rodin and the art of 24 Jul – 23 Sep 2018 The past is present: becoming History ancient Greece Egyptian in the 20th century 9 May – 3 Sep 2018 26 Apr – 29 Jul 2018 A personal choice: modern 24 May – 22 Jul 2018 Sponsored by Bank of and contemporary gifts FRANCE America Merrill Lynch from David Paisey What is Europe? Views Organised with Musée 24 Sep – 15 Nov 2018 from Asia A history of the world in Rodin, Paris 23 Aug – 21 Oct 2018 100 objects Witnesses: emigré Musée des Beaux-Arts de The Citi exhibition medallists in Britain No man’s land Valenciennes I object: Ian Hislop’s 4 Oct 2018 – 7 Apr 2019 22 Nov 2018 – 19 Apr – 22 Jul 2018 search for dissent Sponsored by Spink 3 Feb 2019 6 Sep 2018 – 20 Jan The American Dream: 2019 New acquisitions: Gozzoli Feeding history: the pop to the present Supported by Citi to Kara Walker politics of food Fondation Custodia, 4 Oct 2018 – 28 Feb – 27 May 2019 Paris The BP exhibition 27 Jan 2019 2 Jun – 2 Sep 2018 I am Ashurbanipal: king of Supported by Mr and Mrs Supported by Supported by the Terra the world, king of Assyria Edward D. Baker, and the The Asahi Shimbun Foundation for American Art 8 Nov 2018 – late Mrs Marigold Ann 24 Feb 2019 Chamberlin AUSTRALIA INDIA Supported by BP Logistics partner IAG Cargo Arabesque Egyptian mummies: India and the world: Oct 2018 – Oct 2020 exploring ancient lives a history in nine stories Supported by the , National Museum, Delhi Charmed lives in Greece: Albukhary Foundation Brisbane 5 May – 30 June 2018 Ghika, Craxton and Organised with the Islamic 16 Mar – 26 Aug 2018 Supported by the Getty Leigh Fermor Arts Museum Malaysia Foundation and Tata Trusts. 8 Mar – 15 Jul 2018 Rome: city and empire Additional support from Supported by the Reimagining Captain Cook: National Museum of the Newton Bhabha Fund A.G. Leventis Foundation Pacific perspectives Australia, Canberra and Ministry of Culture, Organised with the 29 Nov 2018 – 20 Sep 2018 – Government of India A.G. Leventis Gallery 4 Aug 2019 4 Feb 2019 In collaboration with the Supported by Stephen and Appendices Benaki Museum and the Julie Fitzgerald 65 Exhibitions: London and Touring Craxton Estate 66 Supporters Rembrandt: thinking on paper 69 Patrons Prints and drawings from 7 Feb – 4 Aug 2019 70 Legacies 71 Community Groups the Fontainebleau school 72 Loans: UK and International 13 Mar – 13 May 2018

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NETHERLANDS Making connections: Supporters The Barakat Trust E. Rhodes & Leona EY Holdingham Group Stonehenge in its The Baring Foundation B. Carpenter The Eyre Family Kim Hong-nam Hajj: longing for Mecca Dressed to impress: netsuke prehistoric world The Trustees and the Graham and Joanna Foundation Foundation Horizon Asset LLP Tropenmuseum, and Japanese men’s fashion Stonehenge, Wiltshire Director would like to Barker Elizabeth Cayzer The late Mr William Sir Joseph Hotung Amsterdam Museum of East Asian 12 Oct 2018 – thank the following The Barry Family Charitable Trust Fagg The Sir Joseph 14 Feb 2019 – Art, Bath 21 Apr 2019 for their support and Foundation CEDIA Stuart Feldman Hotung Charitable 12 Jan 2020 4 Nov 2017 – In partnership with advice during the Ali Khalil Basma Robert and Virginia The Fidelity UK Settlement 22 Apr 2018 English Heritage period 1 April 2018 to Bei Shan Tang Chapman Foundation The late Mrs Maureen SINGAPORE Worthing Museum & 31 March 2019 Foundation Julie Charalambous and Mr Francis Finlay CNG Howard Art Gallery Hoards: a hidden history Richard Beleson and Steve Cobden OBE HSBC Holdings plc Raffles in Southeast Asia: 28 Apr – 25 Aug 2018 of ancient Britain The Aall Foundation Kim Lam Beleson CHK Charities Limited The late Dr Marjorie IAG Cargo revisiting the scholar and Salisbury Museum Mr Mohammed Fund Christie’s Fisher The Idlewild Trust statesman Viking: rediscover the legend 13 Oct 2018 – Afkhami Mrs Pierrette Bergin in Citi Marc Fitch Fund ING Bank N.V. Asian Civilisations The Atkinson, Southport 5 Jan 2019 Howard and Roberta memory of J.A. and Clifford Chance LLP Julie and Stephen Inlaks Shivdasani Museum 31 Mar – 8 Jul 2018 Museum, Belfast Ahmanson P.M. Bergin The John S Cohen Fitzgerald Foundation 1 Feb – 28 Apr 2019 Norwich Castle Museum 18 Jan – 31 Mar 2019 AKO Foundation The Berkeley Group Foundation Ms Martha J. Fleischman The Institute of 9 Feb – 8 Sep 2019 The Albukhary Randy and Nancy Best The R and S Cohen Ford Foundation Bioarchaeology SPAIN Ipplepen: new discoveries Foundation David Bindman and Foundation Honor Frost Foundation International Foundation Portrait of the artist: on the edge of the Roman Selwyn and Ellie Alleyne Frances Carey Commonwealth Bank of Fu Lau Kin Yue for Arts and Culture Ancient Greeks: athletes, Käthe Kollwitz Empire The Altajir Trust The late Miss Joan Australia Kathleen Iran Heritage warriors and heroes Glynn Vivian Art Torquay Museum, American Friends of the Bishop Margaret Conklin and The Gamboge Foundation CaixaForum, Seville Gallery, Swansea Devon British Museum Sir Len Blavatnik David Sabel Society Sir Martin and Lady 20 Mar – 17 Jun 2018 24 Mar – 17 Jun 2018 16 Mar – 8 Sep 2019 American Friends of the Bloomberg Peter and Faith Coolidge The late Mr William Jacomb CaixaForum, Zaragoza Ferens Art Gallery, Hull Shanghai Museum The Charlotte Bonham- The Cultivist Gaskill JTI 17 Jul – 11 Nov 2018 30 Jun – 30 Sep 2018 UK touring exhibitions are Amorepacific Carter Charitable The Sir Percival David Generation Investment Jonathan and Ute Kagan CaixaForum, Palma supported by the Dorset The Anglo-Omani Trust Foundation Trust Management LLP Furthermore: a program 13 Dec 2018 – Rodin: rethinking the Foundation in memory of Society BP plc The de Laszlo The Getty Foundation of the J.M. Kaplan 31 Mar 2019 fragment Harry M Weinrebe The Annenberg The late Miss G.H. Foundation J. Paul Getty Jr Fund Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Foundation Brady Simon Digby Memorial Charitable Trust Yvonne Koerfer Pharaoh: king of Egypt USA Arcadia – a charitable The Deborah Loeb Brice Charity Israel Goldman The CaixaForum, Barcelona 10 Aug – 27 Oct 2018 fund of Peter Foundation Department for Digital, Goldman Sachs Ministry of Culture, 7 Jun – 16 Sep 2018 Holburne Museum, Bath Rome: city and empire Baldwin and Lisbet The British Academy Culture, Media & International Sports and Tourism CaixaForum, Madrid 2 Nov 2018 – Frist , Rausing The British Council Sport The Goldsmiths’ of the Republic of 16 Oct 2018 – 27 Jan 2019 Nashville ArcelorMittal British Institute for the Mr Jim Dine Company Charity Korea 20 Jan 2019 New Art Gallery, Walsall 23 Feb – 21 Apr 2018 The late Miss Marion M. Study of Iraq Sir Harry and Lady The Golsoncott Korean Air CaixaForum, Girona 8 Feb – 28 Apr 2019 Archibald British Institute of Djanogly Foundation The late Mr Michael 19 Feb – 25 Aug 2019 The John Armitage Persian Studies Patrick Donovan Google Kottka Desire, love, identity: Charitable Trust The British Museum The Dorset Foundation Professor Lynda Gratton The Neil Kreitman exploring LGBTQ histories Art Fund Friends in memory of Harry and the Hon. Nigel Foundation Ashmolean Museum, Arts Council England British Museum Trust M Weinrebe Boardman Sir Richard and Lady Oxford Arts and Humanities British Numismatic The D’Oyly Carte The Greengross Family Lambert 25 Sep – 2 Dec 2018 Research Council Society Charitable Trust Antony Griffiths Steven Larcombe and National Justice The Asahi Shimbun BT Group plc Laura and Jim Duncan Mrs Dorothy Hambleton Sonya Leydecker Museum, Nottingham The Atlas Fund William Buller Fagg Edwardian Hotels The Helen Hamlyn The late Mr David Large 14 Dec 2018 – The Aurelius Charitable Charitable Trust London Trust Latham & Watkins 3 Mar 2019 Trust The Gilbert & Ildiko Maryam and Edward Dr Haruhisa Handa Thomas and Gianna Bain & Company, Inc. Butler Family Eisler Ms Zarina Hashmi Le Claire 15 Mar – 26 May 2019 Mr and Mrs Edward D. Foundation Dr Ahmed & Ann The Headley Trust The Leathersellers’ Baker James Bynon El-Mokadem Gerda Henkel Stiftung Company Charitable The Band Trust The High Commission European Commission Hintze Family Charitable Fund Bank of America Merrill of Canada in the European Research Foundation The Leche Trust Lynch UK Council HM Government

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Legal & General Mitsubishi Corporation Bridget Riley Art The Searcher Magazine University of Patrons Peter M. Brown FRSA Mr Paul Gadd Investment Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation In memory of Melvin R University of Reading Rosamond Brown Mr Jonathan Gaisman Management International Rio Tinto plc Seiden Professor Richard Verdi The Trustees and the The Lord Browne of Johanna and Leslie The A.G. Leventis (Europe) plc Barbara Paul Robinson Seven Pillars of Wisdom The Vivmar Foundation Director would like Madingley Garfield Foundation The Mok Family & Charles Raskob Trust Mr P.D.S. Waddell to thank the Patrons Sir Andrew Cahn Lady Gavron The Family of The Monument Trust Robinson Dame Minouche Shafik Jack Wakefield and members of Charles Ede Ltd Mrs Raghida Ghandour Constantine Leventis Mark and Judy Moody- Elizabeth Sutton and Dr Raffael The Wakefield Trust the Contemporary Lillian and Lincoln Chin Al-Rahim Mrs Edmée Leventis Stuart Robinson Jovine The Charles Wallace and Modern Sir Trevor and Lady The Hon. Piers and Mrs OBE The Henry Moore The E.S.G. Robinson Singapore High Burma Trust Middle Eastern Art Chinn Gibson The Leverhulme Trust Foundation Charitable Trust Commission The Charles Wallace (CaMMEA), Ottley and Ida Chow Clive Gillmore Christian and Florence MOP Foundation The late Mr William A. Sino-British Fellowship India Trust Vollard groups of the Tim and Caroline Clark Israel Goldman Levett Morgan Stanley Rodger Trust The Charles Wallace British Museum Classical Numismatic Val Gooding and The B.D.G. Leviton Marie-Louise von Roman Research Trust Oleg and Galina Trust Group, Inc. Crawford Foundation Motesiczky Dame Vivien Rose Smirnov Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Mr Hossam Abdalla Stephen Cohen MacDonald Leon Levy Foundation Charitable Trust Mr and Mrs Benjamin The late Miss Jean Smith Voluntary Settlement HH Sheikh Zayed bin Mr and Mrs Paul J. Stephen Gosztony and Ms Chun Liao Edith Murphy Rosen Sotheby’s Wellcome Trust Sultan bin Khalifa Al Collins Sue Butcher The Linbury Trust Foundation The Rothschild Spink The Garfield Weston Nahyan Eden Collinsworth Professor Lynda Gratton The late Mr Eric Lloyd Shigeru and Noriko Foundation Staatliche Foundation Alan Cristea Gallery Margaret Conklin and and the Hon. Nigel Bennett Lowell Ltd Myojin Royal Anthropological Kunstsammlungen Mr Malcolm H. Wiener Naomi Alderman David Sabel Boardman Lowell Libson Ltd Sherif and Dounia Institute Urgent Dresden The late Mr Brian Selwyn and Ellie Alleyne John Cook Henry and Detta Mrs Ann-Louise Luthi Nadar Fund Standard Chartered Wilson Abdelmonem Bin Eisa David and Susan Gregson Ma Hongwei Mr Peter Nahum The Ruddock Bank Mr Clark B. Winter Alserkal Dalgarno Jeffrey Gruder QC Dr Lee MacCormick National Heritage Foundation for the John J. Studzinski CBE Wolfgang Ratjen Zar and Caroline R.L. Dalladay Mr David Gu Edwards Charitable Memorial Fund Arts The Sumitomo Stiftung, Amrolia Thomas Dane Roderick Hall Foundation The National Lottery Judy Rudoe Foundation Liechtenstein Hilda and Yitz Gwendoline, Countess of Dr Martin Halusa Dr and Mrs P. Mahonen Heritage Fund Jack Ryan Susan Sheehan Gallery The Wolfson Foundation Applbaum Dartmouth Sir Ewan and Lady Massimo Marcucci Newton Bhabha Fund The Lenore Kupperstein The Lord Leonard and Karen Armstrong OBE Kate de Rothschild Harper Nancy and Howard The Newton Charitable Charitable Trusts Susman (in memory Lady Estelle Wolfson Katherine Ashton Young Agius and Marcus Mrs Katrin Henkel Marks Trust Sainsbury Institute of Ralph M. Foundation and Brian D. Young Agius Colonel and Mrs Daniel The Marsh Christian Ms Diane Nixon for the Study of Susman) Mrs Jayne Wrightsman Behnaz Atighi Mr Anthony Diamond C. Herbert Trust William and Edith Japanese Arts and Tabor Foundation OBE Moghaddam Stuart Donachie and David Higgins Marsh Ltd Oldham Charitable Cultures Faisal Tamer and Sara Mrs Jenny Young du John and Paula Attree Chris Carter Sabrina Ho Chiu Yeng Mary Ryan Gallery Trust Samsung Alireza Pont Alain (Alan) Aubry Dr W.J.R. Dreesmann Mrs M. 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