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It was housed in a specially built gallery in the British Museum from 1827 to 1997 and now forms part of the British Library. [2] The term "King's Library" was until recently also used to refer to the gallery in the British Museum built for the collection, which is now called the "Enlightenment Gallery" and displays a wide range of objects ...
The "Enlightenment Gallery" in the British Museum, installed in the former "Kings Library" room in 2003 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the museum, aims to recreate the abundance and diversity that still characterized museums in the mid-eighteenth century, mixing shells, rock samples and botanical specimens with a great variety of ...
From 2000, Sloan was the lead curator creating the new Enlightenment Gallery at the British Museum, which presents the history of the collection in the King's Library after the library collection moved to the British Library. The new gallery opened in 2003 and Sloan maintains curatorial responsibility for the Enlightenment Gallery. [2] [3]
The Enlightenment Gallery at museum, which formerly held the King's Library, 2007 Proposed British Museum Extension, 1906 External view of the World Conservation and Exhibition Centre at the museum, 2015
The Enlightenment Gallery, which serves as Discovery Park's "Cabinet of Curiosities," housing artifacts that are unique and do not fit the themes of other galleries. Exhibits here include a scale replica of the Ark of the Covenant , a suit of armor, a vampire killing kit, and a replica of the Rosetta Stone . [ 11 ]
Replica of the Rosetta Stone, displayed as the original used to be, available to touch, in what was the King's Library of the British Museum, now the Enlightenment Gallery. Work on the stone now focused on fuller understanding of the texts and their contexts by comparing the three versions with one another.
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A flint handaxe was found nearby, [3] now famous as the Gray's Inn Lane handaxe and on display in the British Museum's Enlightenment Gallery. [5] Conyers was the first to argue that it was a human artefact. [1]