The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of...
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Key events affecting the British Geological Survey, 1967–1998 (Technical Report, WQ/99/1 ed.). British Geological Survey. "Museum 'cocoon' prepares to open"...
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Elgin Marbles (redirect from Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum)
Ottoman Greece and shipped to Britain by agents of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, and now held in the British Museum in London. The majority of the...
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The Secretum (Latin for 'hidden away') was a British Museum collection of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that held artefacts and images deemed...
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The British Museum is a museum of human culture and history located in Bloomsbury, London. British Museum may also refer to: British Museum (Natural History)...
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The British Museum algorithm is a general approach to finding a solution by checking all possibilities one by one, beginning with the smallest. The term...
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moved to the new British Library building at St Pancras, London, but the Reading Room remains in its original form at the British Museum. Designed by Sydney...
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accounts to the British Government. The actual governance of the British Museum, however, is delegated to its board of trustees. At the museum's inception its...
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Postal Museum (formerly the British Postal Museum & Archive) is a postal museum run by the Postal Heritage Trust. It began in 2004 as The British Postal...
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British Museum was a station on the London Underground, located in Holborn, central London. It was latterly served by the Central line and took its name...
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A History of the British Museum Library, 1753–1973. London: British Library. ISBN 0712345620. Howard, Philip (2008). The British Library, a Treasure...
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British Museum". The British Museum. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2014. "History of the British Museum". British Museum...
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Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum is the primary reference work for the study of British satirical prints of the 18th and 19th century...
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The British Motor Museum in Gaydon, Warwickshire, England holds the world's largest collection of historic British cars, with over 300 cars on display...
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at the British Museum could not be returned. The Act also made the Natural History Museum an independent organisation from the British Museum, with its...
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Rosetta Stone (category Ancient Egyptian objects in the British Museum)
and plaster casts soon began circulating among European museums and scholars. When the British defeated the French, they took the stone to London under...
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Drawings: Closer to the Master (British Museum, London 23 March–25 June 2006). Catalogue by Hugo Chapman. London: British Museum, 2005. 203 colour and 80 b&w...
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Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir (category Middle Eastern objects in the British Museum)
Discovered by Sir Leonard Woolley in Ur, it is currently kept in the British Museum. Written in Akkadian cuneiform, this tablet is recognized as the "Oldest...
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"Science Museum | British History Online". British-history.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 18 April 2009. Retrieved 10 March 2015. "Museum history"...
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British Museum Act is a stock short title used in the United Kingdom for legislation relating to the British Museum. The British Museum Act 1753 (26 Geo...
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Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. As with other national British museums, entrance is free. The V&A covers 12.5 acres (5.1 ha) and 145 galleries...
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monarchs, all secured for the British Museum by Layard and the British archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam. Also in the British Museum is the famous Black Obelisk...
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to restore the tablet's power, but that they are in the British Museum. Larry convinces museum curator Dr. McPhee, who was fired due to the planetarium...
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The British Museum Catalogues of Coins was a series envisioned and initiated by Reginald Stuart Poole, Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals, at...
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Cotton library (redirect from British Museum Act 1700)
collections" of the British Museum in 1753. It is now one of the major collections of the Department of Manuscripts of the British Library. Cotton was...
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British Commercial Vehicle Museum displays antiquarian buses, early fire engines and other historical and commercial vehicles produced by the British...
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London (redirect from London, Great Britain)
the most museums, art galleries, libraries, and cultural venues in the UK, including the British Museum, National Gallery, Natural History Museum, Tate Modern...
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Ethnography at the British Museum describes how ethnography has developed at the British Museum. The ethnographical collection was originally linked to...
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The British Columbia Aviation Museum is located in Sidney, British Columbia, Canada. It is on the grounds of the Victoria International Airport at 1910...
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The British Schools Museum is an educational museum based in original Edwardian and Victorian school buildings in Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England. The...
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