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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 ...
In galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to, and achieving initial control of, each acquisition. Assignment of accession numbers typically occurs at the point of accessioning or cataloging. If an item is removed from the collection, its number is usually not reused for new items.
Work on the Cambridge History of Korea was originally started in the 1990s by editorship of James B. Palais (University of Washington). Due to a lack of scholars specialized in the field in English, progress was slow, eventually stopping with his death in 2006 until work on the series was renewed under Donald L. Baker in 2016. [1]
The Uigwe that remained in Korea were preserved and housed in the Gyujanggak library at Seoul National University, and as part of the Jangseogak collection at Academy of Korean Studies. Gyujanggak library has the largest collection, with 2,940 volumes with 546 different Uigwe ; while the latter has 490 volumes with 287 different Uigwe .
Coronation book of Charles V of France, sumptuous illustrated manuscript recording the rituals of a royal coronation (1365) Sherborne Missal, one of the finest English examples of International Gothic illuminated manuscripts (1385–1415) Korean manuscript of volume 32 of the Avatamsaka Sutra, written on gold pigment for a royal patron (1390)
As of November 2020, the library has 12,768,751 items total. 9,158,363 are Korean-language books, 1,552,489 are foreign-language books, 1,771,738 are non-book items, and 286,161 are old texts. [ 5 ] The library also possesses an extensive digital collection, including archives of newspapers and primary sources related to Korean history and society.
The Seoul History Archives (Korean: 서울역사아카이브) is a service operated by the Seoul Museum of History in Seoul, South Korea. Its website was first opened to the public in 2014. [1] Its purpose is to provide materials and knowledge to the general public, free of charge.