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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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British Commercial Vehicle Museum displays antiquarian buses, early fire engines and other historical and commercial vehicles produced by the British...
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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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province of Canada British Airways, the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom British Museum, a public museum in London British Monarchy, the royal...
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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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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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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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The British Museum Act 1753 (26 Geo. 2. c. 22) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The act provided for the purchase of the Museum or Collection...
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University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-966226-5. "Wall panel; relief British Museum". The British Museum. Stephanie Dalley (1993), "Nineveh after 612 BC", Altorientalische...
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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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Museum in Athens and (controversially) at the British Museum in London (see Elgin Marbles). Additional pieces are at the Louvre, the National Museum of...
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Kent Battle of Britain Museum is an aviation museum located in Hawkinge, Kent, focused on the Allied and Axis men of the Battle of Britain. The Spirit of...
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The British Museum is Falling Down (1965) is a comic novel by British author David Lodge about a 25-year-old poverty-stricken student of English literature...
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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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Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 25, pp. 1–7, 1925. H. R. Hall, "Ur and Eridu: The British Museum Excavations of 1919", Journal...
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The British Museum Quarterly was a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the British Museum. It described recent acquisitions and research concerning...
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"papyrus | British Museum". The British Museum. "papyrus | British Museum". The British Museum. "papyrus | British Museum". The British Museum. "papyrus...
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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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George Smith (Assyriologist) (category 19th-century British archaeologists)
while working at the printing firm, he spent his lunch hours at the British Museum, studying publications on the cuneiform tablets that had been unearthed...
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