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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]
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 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 British Museum is seeking the public's help to recover around 2,000 lost, stolen or damaged items from its vast collection. ... Much of the museum’s collection was acquired during Britain's ...
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.
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 ...
All the pages were reproduced in a book on the Liber Veritatis by Michael Kitson, and all are now available online on the British Museum website. The Liber Veritatis inspired J. M. W. Turner to assemble his Liber Studiorum (Latin: Book of Studies, a collection of 71 prints after his paintings and watercolours printed from 1807 to 1819. [28]