Following the huge success of Day of the Dead celebrations at the British Museum in 2009 which were also supported by BP, the Museum will stage the festival again over four days and includes a Friday evening event, a weekend of family activities and a study day on Monday. Throughout the festival the Museum will be elaborately decorated with art installations by Mexican artists with a focus on the Great Court and the Forecourt. One of the major artworks will be by Mexican artist Betsabeé Romero who will create a spectacular art intervention based on a Day of the Dead altar. Betsabeé will suspend a series of hot air balloon style tissue paper skulls and metal skeletons from the ceiling of the Great Court, as well as hanging banners from the drum of the Round Reading Room and decorating the stairs with ‘serpents’ of tissue paper marigolds.