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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 eight million works is the largest in the world. [3] It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
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 266-year-old museum has had a rocky few years. It is still trying to track down some of more than 1,800 objects believed to have been stolen by a former curator and offered for sale online. Peter Higgs, who worked in the museum’s Greece and Rome department for 30 years, was fired in July 2023 and is being sued by the museum.
Museums in England is a link page for any museum in England by ceremonial county. In 2011 there were around 1,600 museums in England. [ 1 ] The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council is the national development agency for museums in England, and is a sponsored body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport .
Over at the British Museum, the board of trustees took notice.A series of scandals, such as the one in which they discovered that a veteran curator had stolen more than 1,800 antiquities and sold ...
List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning museums; List of British railway museums; National museums of the United Kingdom; List of museums; List of the most-visited attractions in the United Kingdom
The British Museum houses the biggest collection of Chinese relics anywhere in the West – at least 23,000 objects – ranging from paintings that date back to the Tang dynasty (618 to 907 AD) to ...
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 ...