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  2. British Museum - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Category:Collection of the British Museum - Wikipedia

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    Objects in the collection of the British Museum, London, England, sorted by department. See also Category:British Library collections, which were part of the British Museum before the establishment of the British Library in 1973.

  4. British Museum Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan

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    Wooden stela on display in the British Museum Bust of Ramses II in British Museum. The Department of Ancient Egypt is a department forming an historic part of the British Museum, with Its more than 100,000 [1] pieces making it the largest and most comprehensive collection of Egyptian antiquities outside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

  5. British Museum to fully digitise collection after 'inside job ...

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    LONDON (Reuters) -The British Museum said on Wednesday it planned to digitise its entire collection, citing the need to secure public access to its vast catalogue after it reported in August that ...

  6. British Museum Department of Coins and Medals - Wikipedia

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    The Fishpool Hoard of mediaeval coins, northern England, late 15th century AD. The British Museum Department of Coins and Medals is a department of the British Museum involving the collection, research and exhibition of numismatics, and comprising the largest library of numismatic artefacts in the United Kingdom, including almost one million coins, medals, tokens and other related objects. [1]

  7. British Museum Reading Room - Wikipedia

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    The British Museum and the Reading Room serve as the settings for An Encounter at the Museum, an anthology of romance novellas by Claudia Dain and Deb Marlowe, among others. Virginia Woolf made reference to the British Museum Reading Room in a passage from her 1929 essay, A Room of One's Own. She wrote, "The swing doors swung open, and there ...

  8. Map collection - Wikipedia

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    Garnier, F. A., Turquie, Syrie, Liban, Caucase. 1862., from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. A map collection or map library is a storage facility for maps, usually in a library, archive, or museum, or at a map publisher or public-benefit corporation, and the maps and other cartographic items stored within that facility.

  9. Klencke Atlas - Wikipedia

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    Map of Germany from the Klencke Atlas. The Klencke Atlas, first published in 1660, is one of the world's largest atlases. [1] Originating in The Netherlands, it is 1.75 metres (5 ft 9 in) tall by 1.9 metres (6 ft 3 in) wide when open, [2] and so heavy the British Library needed six people to carry it.