Publishing
Contact details
Email: [email protected]
The British Museum Press
The British Museum,
Great Russell Street,
London, WC1B 3DG
For general sales, distribution and marketing enquiries, please contact Toni Allum: [email protected]
The British Museum Press publishes award-winning illustrated books for general readers, families, academics and students.
All our titles are available to purchase from the Great Court Museum bookshop and from our online shop.
Inspired by the famous collections of the British Museum, our titles range across the fine and decorative arts, history, archaeology and world cultures.
Published to accompany the British Museum's innovative exhibition programme, to celebrate key areas of the collection, and to tell the stories of some of the amazing objects, our books shed light on new discoveries of global interest and provide fresh insights into well-known objects and periods of history. Beautifully produced and written by experts in their fields, our titles are sold throughout the world in many languages, with all profits going to support the work of the British Museum.
The British Museum Press is a division of the British Museum Company Ltd, a company and a charity wholly owned by the Trustees of the British Museum.
Awards
Hew Locke: what have we here?
2026 Historians of British Art Book Award for an Exemplary Exhibition Catalogue – Winner
'A remarkable book…a precious album or scrapbook of ideas, insights and specially chosen images of objects that have a multitude of stories to tell.'
Art Africa magazine
Repast: The Story of Food
2025 Best in the World Gourmand Award – Winner, receiving the Special Award of the Jury for its exceptional contribution to global food culture
'A rare beast; a coffee table book that's compulsive reading. A thing of beauty... with gorgeous full-page illustrations. But it is far more than that. [Linford] is a skilful storyteller. Her whistlestop tour can convey more in one page than many food monographs in 300.'
The Spectator
Talk Like an Aztec
2025 Creative Book Awards – Winner, Best Primary Book category
'Write your Aztec birthday, make up an Aztec name and even compose a Nahuatl poem using Aztec hieroglyph stencils with this fact-filled, historical activity book, created in partnership with the British Museum.'
The Bookseller
China's hidden century: 1796–1912
2025 Bei Shan Tang Catalogue Prize – Winner
'The book is a resounding success… a valuable guide to laypeople, students and scholars on the late Qing for years to come.'
SEHEPUNKTE
