The most-visited attraction in the UK for the second year in a row was the British Museum, according to official figures.

London ’s British Museum and Natural History Museum are thriving – but most UK tourist attractions are lagging well behind ...

In 2024, over four million people experienced the National Gallery in person, a 15% increase from 2023. 4,713,519 visits were ...

The fact that it has the size and heft of a tombstone (it’s impossible to read without the support of a piece of furniture), ...

While London boasts some of the most famous museums and art galleries in the world, the rest of the UK is blessed with so ...

The 2024 exhibition of works by JMW Turner, including one of his most popular paintings in The Fighting Temeraire, boosted ...

The British Museum held the record for the most visited attraction in the UK for 2024 for the second year in a row. According ...

Samson and Delilah was purchased by the National Gallery for £2.5m (around £13.7m today) in 1980, then the second-highest price ever paid for a painting at auction. However, 45 years after it ...

Nikolaos Papadopoulos, a member of the small ultra-religious Niki party, allegedly smashed glass cases and attacked works he considered blasphemous.

Concerns over whether Peter Paul Rubens painted the Samson and Delilah picture in the National Gallery have been reignited by new evidence. The painting depicts the Old Testament story where Israelite ...

It is in a couple of places. Most of the machine is sitting in the National Gallery’s basement, but the X-ray bulb that the machine requires is still with the supplier in the UK.

Edvard Munch’s The Scream holds an almost mythic status in the pantheon of art, its face a touchstone for the existential ...