#British museum

[thesilicontribesman]

Four Iron Age Enamelled Brooches, The British Museum, London

[dasloddl]

ID in alt

we get it, it’s beans ON toast and ants would eat that, also we get it, ants aren’t that loyal to their queen, they kill her off if she’s out of line

[vexwerewolf]

There's definitely some story mileage in a British dude with no cultural sensitivity whatsoever still wanting to return every artifact that Britain has ever stolen out of pure self-interest because one of those motherfuckers is Maximally Cursed and he can't tell which

[chaoticace22]

i'm back on my bullshit hope it's okay

[copperbadge]

Meant to link this sooner but life briefly got away from me -- tl;dr it was discovered last month that over 1500 ancient artefacts were stolen from the British Museum by a senior museum curator. Who has been selling them on eBay for years. (Allegedly. And possibly the museum knew about it much earlier and covered it up, given he was dismissed earlier this year; the theft was actually uncovered by someone who linked the curator's twitter and ebay accounts.)

Lots of talk these past two weeks about how this does not give the museum much of a leg to stand on the next time it tries to assert it's a better caretaker of Greek antiquities than, well, Greece. The marbles being returned in our lifetime is a stronger possibility than ever.

Been a bad year for the museum, aside from the blessing of my presence there in April...

[389]

Bronze hand used in the worship of Sabazios. Hands decorated with religious symbols were designed to stand in sanctuaries or, like this one, were attached to poles for processional use.

Date: Roman 1st–2nd century AD. Collection: British Museum.

[lionofchaeronea]

Brooch (the so-called "Hanney brooch") of Anglo-Saxon (Kentish) manufacture, decorated with garnets set in bosses of a white material, perhaps shell. Made in the 7th century, the brooch was found in the grave of a woman between 20 and 25 years of age and would have been worn on her left shoulder. From Oxfordshire, England, UK; now in the British Museum. Photo credit: Ian R. Cartwright/The Portable Antiquities Scheme/The Trustees of the British Museum.

[victusinveritas]

[henk-heijmans]

The ancient of days, 1794, British Museum, London - by William Blake (1757 - 1827), English

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Fun fact: Neil: We had talked, Terry and I, a lot about the angels. The angels actually showed up in a first draft of the Good Omens film script we did. For some reason, the studio couldn’t come to terms with the idea of Aziraphale owning a bookshop, so he had to work in the British Museum. So there was a scene where he was pursued through the British Museum by angels flicking on their halos then throwing them like killer Frisbees. (x)

[thesilicontribesman]

Anglo-Saxon Bird Brooch, The British Museum, London

[arthistoryanimalia]

#Caturday 🐱:

Two prints by George Vernon Stokes (British, 1873-1954), 1925-1954 Drypoint printed in colors on paper H 457 x W 289 mm H 237 x W 290 mm British Museum 1969,0123.74,26

[burningvelvet]

Renaissance era ship jewlery: pendants and a set of earrings (from the British Museum's digital collection and "Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection," The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000, accessed via the Internet Archive)

[joeinct]

Chinese Buddha, British Museum, 1 17 25, Photo by Joe Bruha, Copyright 2025

[thearchaicsmile]

Late Roman stone mosaic from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, Caria (modern Bodrum, Turkey), dated 4th century AD, now in the British Museum. A coloured laurel wreath encloses a Greek inscription with the following words:

ΥΓΙΑ "Health" ΖΟΗ "Life" ΧΑΡΑ "Joy" ΕΙΡΗΝΗ "Peace" ΕΥΘΥΜΙΑ "Happiness" ΕΛΠΙϹ "Hope"

🏛️: © The Trustees of the British Museum

[sca-nerd]

The call is coming from inside the house...