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The original 1753 collection has grown to over 13 million objects at the British Museum, 70 million at the Natural History Museum and 150 million at the British Library. The Round Reading Room , which was designed by the architect Sydney Smirke , opened in 1857.
Garnier, F. A., Turquie, Syrie, Liban, Caucase. 1862., from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. A map collection or map library is a storage facility for maps, usually in a library, archive, or museum, or at a map publisher or public-benefit corporation, and the maps and other cartographic items stored within that facility.
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.
Objects in the collections of the Department of Prehistory and Europe in the British Museum, London. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
The Museum of Mankind in 1987. From 1970 to 2004 the Department of Ethnography of the British Museum was housed at 6 Burlington Gardens, displaying collections from the Americas, Africa, the Pacific and Australia, as well as tribal Asia and Europe. This was due to lack of space in the museum's main building in Bloomsbury. Between 1970 and 1997 ...
'Amalgamated Map of the Great Ming Empire') world map, likely made in the late 14th or the 15th century, [33] shows China at the centre and Europe, half-way round the globe, depicted very small and horizontally compressed at the edge. The coast of Africa is also mapped from an Indian Ocean perspective, showing the Cape of Good Hope area.
Teylers Museum Haarlem, The Netherlands [30] Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 100,000 prints and drawings [31] Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Budapest, Hungary 100,000 prints, 10,000 drawings [32] National Art Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain 50,000 drawings, [33] 70,000 prints [34] Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando ...
The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, commonly referred to simply as the Great Court, is the covered central quadrangle of the British Museum in London. It was redeveloped during the late 1990s to a design by Foster and Partners , from a 1970s design by Colin St John Wilson . [ 1 ]