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The museum's first notable addition towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir William Hamilton (1730–1803), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Greek and Roman artefacts to the museum in 1784 together with a number of other antiquities and natural history specimens.
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]
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ethnographical collection was originally linked to the Department of Natural History and Curiosities. [1] The addition of material gathered by Captain James Cook and his companions between 1767 and 1780, and presented to the British Museum by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, Cook himself and Joseph Banks, were a substantial addition to the material previously collected by Sir Hans ...
British Museum collection online: each item has a page on the database, which may be found by searching on the acquisition numbers 1866,1229.1 to 1866,1229.59 inclusive . Not all objects have photographs, but the major ones have several.