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The British Museum Catalogues of Coins was a series envisioned and initiated by Reginald Stuart Poole, Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals, at the British Museum, between 1870 and 1893. The aim was to produce a scholarly series of catalogues of the collection, based on the British Museum's collection and other collections.
This is a list of the most-visited museums in the world in 2023 by annual attendance statistics. Total attendance at the top sixty museums in 2023, as reported by the annual TEA-AECOM Museum survey, reached 94 percent of 2019 levels, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Warren Cup is an ancient Greco-Roman silver drinking cup decorated in relief with two images of male same-sex acts. It was purchased by the British Museum for £1.8 million in 1999, the most expensive single purchase by the museum at that time.
The Puerto de la Cruz museum has an enormous collection of aboriginal Guanche ceramics, including the remains of several ancient Guanche mummies. It contains several unique pieces native to the island, such as two limpet shells, a finding of Telesforo Bravo , and an anthropomorphic figure or clay idol known as " Guatimac ".
The de la Cruz Collection had been a wonderful venue showing modern art in Miami for the past 15 years. I am saddened to learn that this free museum is now closed.
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.
Juan Pantoja De la Cruz and the Circulation of Gifts between the English and Spanish Courts in 1604/5. Shakespeare Studies, 1998; Ward, Gerald W. R. (ed). The Grove encyclopedia of materials and techniques in art. Oxford University Press US, 2008. ISBN 0-19-531391-7; Wilson, David M. The British Museum; A History. The British Museum Press, 2002.
The garden front of Montagu House. The entrance front. A plan of Montagu House from Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus.. Montagu House (sometimes spelled "Montague") was a late 17th-century mansion in Great Russell Street in the Bloomsbury district of London, which became the first home of the British Museum.