British Museum

==British Museum Press==
The British Museum Press (BMP) is the publishing business and a division of the British Museum Company Ltd., a company and a charity (established in 1973) wholly owned by the trustees of the British Museum.<ref name="aboutbmp">{{cite web |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/about_us/services/the_british_museum_press/about_the_british_museum_press.aspx |title=About the BMP |access-date=2 March 2014 |archive-date=2 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302180418/https://www.britishmuseum.org/about_us/services/the_british_museum_press/about_the_british_museum_press.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>

The BMP publishes both popular and scholarly illustrated books to accompany the exhibition programme and explore aspects of the general collection. Profits from their sales goes to support the British Museum.<ref name="aboutbmp" />

Scholarly titles are published in the Research Publications series, all of which are [[peer-reviewed]]. This series was started in 1978 and was originally called Occasional Papers. The series is designed to disseminate research on items in the collection. Between six and eight titles are published each year in this series.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/research_publications_series.aspx |title=Research Publications |access-date=2 March 2014 |archive-date=2 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302173434/https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/research_publications_series.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>