NEW Haiku Animals book
Haiku Animals is a brand new book, illustrated with beautiful images by Japan’s most famous artists and including a selection of much-loved haiku focusing on the world of animals, birds and insects. The haiku form is a perfect way of capturing a moment of experience or a fleeting impression, and in this book, the impressions are strengthened and extended by the illustrations.
Buy this intriguing book now for only £9.99.
Look Here by Axelle Russo
The ultimate picture book, Look Here is a witty collection of visual delights from the British Museum. Packed with wonderful photography, the book appeals to people of all ages and speakers of all languages. Introducing the title is author Axelle Russo; a Picture Researcher at the British Museum:
South Indian Paintings
Join us for a special chance to meet author Anna L. Dallapiccola who’s new book South Indian Paintings has just been published.
The British Museum’s outstanding collection of South Indian paintings features around1000 works which range from the 17th to the 20th century. This is the first publication of the entire collection, and reproduces 250 of the most important works in full colour. (more…)
1 July, 6-8pm
Join us for a chance to meet Clarissa von Spee, author and curator of The Printed Image in China, who will be talking about the exhibition and signing books.
Receive 20% off all British Museum Press books on Chinese Art.
Enjoy a free glass of wine.
For more information:
Click here for more information on the exhibition.
Click here to look inside the book.
The British Museum Book Shop is located just beyond the cloakroom, at the South end of the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery.
14 May – 15 August 2010
A small temporary display in Gallery 90 (Prints & Drawings) to complement the new book by C. Gere and J. Rudoe Jewellery in the age of Queen Victoria: a mirror to the world. (more…)
The British Museum Bookshop is delighted to announce the launch of late night Thursdays – discounts and booksignings over a glass of wine, on the first Thursday of every month.
3 June, 6-8pm
Ancient Greece and Rome
A chance to meet the authors and have your book signed by Sam Moorhead and David Stuttard (authors of AD 410: The Year That Shook Rome). Customers will receive 20% off all British Museum Press books on Ancient Greece and Rome and a glass of wine.
“AD 410 tells the story with splendid set pieces, lovely pictures and excellent maps…exciting, but also complex, personality-packed tale.”
BBC History Magazine, April 2010
Dates for your diary:
Thursday 1 July: receive 20% off books on China and have your book signed by Clarissa von Spee, author and curator of The Printed Image in China.
Thursday 5 August: receive 20% off books on India, with signings by Anna L. Dallapiccola, author of South Indian Paintings, Indian Love Poetry, Indian Art in Detail.
If you can’t make this event you can still take advantage of this fantastic offer by shopping online. Please enter the promotional code THURSDAYLATE at the checkout. Shop online now.
The Benin collection of the British Museum is one of the world’s most prominent. Benin objects fall into two distinct groups – the works of ivory and cast metal (’Bronzes’), made by court artists as marks of royal distinction, and the exquisite carved ivories made as souvenirs for the foreigners who were among the first Europeans to visit West Africa. While the latter objects have been in the West since the sixteenth century, the former were almost unknown when they were dramatically revealed at the end of the nineteenth century and both the general public and professional ‘experts’ on Africa struggled to incorporate them into the world as then known.
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Study for Adam