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Desire, love, identity – an LGBTQ+ tour of the British Museum
Price
Free
Public sessions: free, advance booking essential. 5 and 12 October Members sessions: free for Members, booking and valid Membership card required.
About
A 70-minute tour explores Museum objects connected with LGBTQ+ desire, love, identity and gender diversity, from antiquity to the present.
Public volunteer-led tours meet at the Information Desk in the Great Court and are free with advance booking essential. Separately booked Members sessions on 5 and 12 October 2026, 14:30–15:40, meet at the Membership Desk in the Great Court ten minutes before; a valid Membership card is required for those two sessions. The public session on 17 October is cancelled. Both programmes explore objects linked with LGBTQ+ desire, love, identity and gender diversity.
All dates · 6
October 2026
November 2026
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