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The museum in central London, which attracts almost 6 million visitors a year, closed its temporary exhibitions and part of its permanent collection after the alleged attack on Thursday. “An IT contractor who was dismissed last week trespassed into the museum and shut down several of our systems,” the museum said in a statement on Friday.
Although today principally a museum of cultural art objects and antiquities, the British Museum was founded as a "universal museum". Its foundations lie in the will of the Anglo-Irish physician and naturalist Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753), a London-based doctor and scientist from Ulster .
The British Museum Reading Room is the subject of an eponymous poem, "The British Museum Reading Room", by Louis MacNeice. Much of the action of David Lodge's 1965 novel The British Museum Is Falling Down takes place in the old Reading Room. The 'Glass Ceiling' of Anabel Donald's 1994 novel is the ceiling of the Reading Room, where the ...
Bramah Tea and Coffee Museum; British Music Experience, closed in 2014 and relocated to Liverpool, opening in 2017; BT Museum; Church Farmhouse Museum; Clockmakers' Museum (collections were moved to the Science Museum in 2015) [25] Clowns Gallery-Museum closed in 2018 and seeking new venue [26] [27] Dalí Universe
The British Museum states that it “takes its commitment to be a world museum seriously. The collection is a unique resource to explore the richness, diversity and complexity of all human history ...
The British Museum has extended its partnership with oil giant BP by another decade after striking a £50 million deal to help fund its renovations plans. ... The announcement came a day after an ...
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The Smithsonian has closed its doors at 19 museums and the national zoo as coronavirus cases rise in the Washington D.C. area. Several museums also reopened in September with safety measures in place.