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The Department of Asia in the British Museum holds one of the largest collections of historical objects from Asia. These collections comprise over 75,000 objects covering the material culture of the Asian continent (including East Asia, South and Central Asia, and Southeast Asia), and dating from the Neolithic age up to the present day.
Portal worked as Curator of Chinese and Korean Collections at the British Museum, 1987–2008, creating the Korea Foundation Gallery (the museum's first gallery of Korean art) in 2000. In 2001 and 2002, she made two visits to North Korea , following the establishment of diplomatic relations, and started collecting contemporary works from the ...
The building was probably completed around early April 1910. It cost a total of 1 million won, including 120,000 for decorations and 100,000 on the interior. All funding for the building was managed and provided by Brown, who was in charge of economic development projects in the Korean Empire that forwarded British-Korean relations. [23]
The museum covers both major historical events and the daily lives of Zainichi Koreans from the late Joseon period to the present day. It has a collection of over 70,000 artifacts, which it is digitalizing. The museum is relatively unknown to both the Korean and Japanese general publics, and had a total of 32,000 visitors from 2005 to 2015.
During the 1840s approximately 13% of the books consulted in the museum were from the King's Library. This percentage declined as the museum's book collection grew in subsequent decades, but the King's Library remained well-used. From 1857, the gallery was used to display notable volumes from the whole of the museum's printed books collection. [2]
Emperor Sunjong established Korea's first museum, the Imperial Household Museum, in 1909. The collections of the Imperial Household Museum at Changgyeonggung and the Japanese Government General Museum administered during Japanese rule of Korea became the nucleus of the National Museum's collection, which was established when South Korea regained independence in 1945.
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Sir Percival Victor David Ezekiel David, 2nd Baronet (21 July 1892 – 9 October 1964) was a Bombay-born British financier who is best known as a scholar and collector of Chinese ceramics. [2] His collection of Chinese ceramics in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art is regarded as the world's most important single collection outside of ...