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‘Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience’
John-Paul Stonard, art historian On 7 February, the great literary critic James Wood gave a lecture at the British Museum, part of the London Review of Books’ Winter Lecture series, titled ‘On Not...
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The lives of others in runic inscriptions
Martin Findell, Research Associate, University of Leicester Gold finger-ring, engraved with a runic inscription. Late Anglo-Saxon, found in Cumbria, England. OA.10262 Call it perversity, but in my own...
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The sinking of the Lusitania: medals as war propaganda
Henry Flynn, Project Curator, British Museum The Money and Medals Network is an Arts Council England-funded project that exists to build and develop relationships between UK museums that have...
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Through time: the history behind your watch
David Thompson, former Curator of Horology, British Museum Do you own a watch? What does your watch look like? Is it a traditional mechanical watch made by one of the leading Swiss watch manufacturers...
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Exhibiting Germany
Barrie Cook, exhibition curator, British Museum Some exhibitions almost create themselves: the subject is distinctive and circumscribed, the narrative is relatively straightforward, the star objects...
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A personal history in 190 objects: from Germany to the British Museum and...
Paul Kobrak, series producer, Germany: memories of a nation, BBC Radio 4 To say that it was a life-changing moment would be to seriously over-egg it. But being made the second producer on a then...
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Luther, language and faith
Alexander Weber, Department of Cultures and Languages, Birkbeck, University of London Martin Luther (1483-1546), portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553), 1529. Oil on wood. © Deutsches...
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Dinggedicht poetry competition
Godela Weiss-Sussex, Senior Lecturer and Convenor of German Studies, Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR) It all started when I attended a lecture given by Neil MacGregor about the British...
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The Holy Roman Empire: from Charlemagne to Napoleon
Joachim Whaley, Professor of German History and Thought, University of Cambridge Replica crown of the Holy Roman Empire, 1913. © Anne Gold, Städtische Museen for the City Hall, Aachen The object...
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Käthe Kollwitz, a Berlin story
Frances Carey, art historian Statue of Käthe Kollwitz, Kollwitzplatz, Berlin. Photo by Rae Allen, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) The seated figure of an elderly...
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Barlach’s hovering angel travels to London
Clarissa von Spee, curator, British Museum ‘Everything is packed and we are on our way now!’ said a breathless voice on the phone, and it took me several seconds to realize that it was the chairman of...
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Where were you the night the Berlin Wall fell?
Sabrina Ben Aouicha, project curator, Germany: memories of a nation, British Museum Wach auf, Sabrina! Du musst dir ansehen, wie Geschichte geschrieben wird! ‘Wake up, Sabrina! You have to witness...
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Conserving Dürer’s Triumphal Arch: a moving experience
Joanna Kosek, conservator, British Museum The display of Albrecht Dürer’s (1471–1528) monumental Triumphal Arch in the Asahi Shimbun Display in Room 3 in autumn 2014 was a great success. The enormous...
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Conserving Dürer’s Triumphal Arch: photography and imaging
Ivor Kerslake, Photography and Imaging Manager, British Museum and Joanna Russell, Scientist, British Museum Before any conservation treatment could commence, and with the Arch now out from behind its...
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Spring cleaning with Dürer: conserving the Triumphal Arch
Lauren Buttle, candidate for a Masters of Art Conservation, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada As a student placement in the Western Art on Paper Conservation Studio at the British Museum this...
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The Sword of Tiberius
The so-called Sword of Tiberius is on display in Room 70, the Wolfson Gallery of the Roman Empire. It perfectly embodies Roman visual language and political propaganda, tied up with Rome’s foreign wars...
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