It’s spring again and time to prepare for a new season of the International Training Programme. This year the BM is happy to welcome 24 visitors from 11 different countries, and I have joined as a new member...
Training Programme alumni working on British Museum fieldwork projects
In the past six months I’ve had the chance to catch up with two past participants in the Museum’s International Training Programme. Last October and November, Mohamed Ali Hakim (Supreme Council of Antiquities, Egypt, in...
Shah ‘Abbas exhibition
The BM is currently running a series of exhibitions on world rulers. Shah ‘Abbas The Remaking of Iran The first in the series was The First Emperor (China’s Terracotta Army) and this was followed by Hadrian: Empire...
Bird nest, Olympic Games 2008, Beijing
Bo Haikun
‘Chinese Civilisation’ exhibition with Terracotta warriors in Capital Museum of China, Beijing.
Bo Haikun
Opening of the Nairobi National Museum
After a closure of 2 years for renovations, the Nairobi National Museum was officially opened on 14th July 2008. The ceremony was presided over by the President, while many other dignitaries were in attendance. With...
Report on 2008
The report on this year’s training programme has just been finished – you can access it here: International Training Programme Report 2008. We shall be sending this programme to all those who participated in the programme,...
News from Kenya
Work is great, the weather is finally getting warmer for us here in Kenya. I am going for a week to the northern parts of Kenya, Wajir to be precise, for a fact finding mission...
Archaeologists in the (rainy!) field
On a very wet July day, our friends Mohamed Ali Hakim and Moamen Saad Mohamed, joined our excavation team, to experience the ongoing archaeological excavation at Llanmaes in the Vale of Glamorgan. (Thanks must...
From Hadrian to Babylon…
Hadrian continues to be busy, though not as much as the First Emperor exhibition. By this Monday, 92,000 tickets had been sold. For one of the reviews of the exhibition, click here. It is the...
