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British Museum Publications

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The British Museum Press
British Museum
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG

The Museum produces a range of publications that showcase the scope and depth of research it undertakes.

From award-winning illustrated exhibition catalogues to academic monographs, the Museum publishes a wide variety of titles that cater for both academics and general readers. All titles are inspired by the Museum's collection, presenting new insights into both familiar and unknown objects and periods of history.

The Museum also offers a number of free online academic publications, including a range of titles within the Museum's Research Publications series, Online Research Catalogues and the journal British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan. These online publications are a way of disseminating the Museum's research as widely as possible and ensuring that the titles are easily accessible to students and academics all over the world.

All titles are available for purchase from the Museum bookshop and from our online shop.