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      British Museum Reviews

      3.3

      52% would recommend to a friend

      (149 total reviews)
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      Hartwig Fischer

      59% approve of CEO

      43% positive business outlook

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      British Museum has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 149 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The British Museum employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Arts, entertainment and recreation industry (3.9 stars).

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      149 reviews
      5.0
      Jun 29, 2026

      Supportive team, but age gap among colleagues

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Friendly and supportive team, kind colleagues

      Cons

      Colleagues are mostly not around my age

      3.0
      Jun 26, 2026

      Decent work experience but poorly paid and not-so-positive culture

      Events assistant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Staff pass and free access (possible to request ICOM cards from HR and lots of reciprocal entries), networking. Obviously it's great to have the British Museum in your CV if you want to pursue a career in museums or the heritage sector so can be a good first step

      Cons

      Minimum pay, hours not guaranteed, no meals guaranteed event when working catered events (on the other hand, occasionally get very good meals), Events&Conferencing is a good department to work for but other departments are extremely toxic and "back of house" either ignores or actively disregards "front of house".

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