This page is for requesting photos for things in the British Museum (see the project page GLAM/BM). If you find an image that can be made available with a suitable licence on Commons, please add a link and mark the request as {{done}}.
The image needed may exist somewhere on Wikimedia Commons. Relevant images can be can be found at Commons:Category:British Museum and the organization of that category can be easily navigated at category tree:British Museum. If the image has living people in it, then the guidance of Photographs of identifiable people applies.
If you are looking for help with the content of a hard to find reference, you may find WP:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request a useful alternative noticeboard.
Note that the British Museum welcomes the public to make personal and some limited publication use of professional images from their on-line database. At the current time none of these images is available for free commercial use and so cannot be released on Wikipedia or Commons. Please contact User:Witty lama for more details on the current situation. If you spot an image on Commons that you believe is one of the professional BM photos, please do not hesitate to use the reporting tools in Commons to request a deletion review or ask for advice at Wikipedia talk:GLAM/BM.
Further guidance on taking photographs (where permitted) in museums, advice on behaviour and some of the issues with licensing is available at Museum photography.
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