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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.
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.
Museums hold large collections of items relating to their subject, building some of the largest complexes in the world in order to store and exhibit the collection in a controlled atmosphere . The world's most important museums have also engaged in various expansion projects through the years, expanding their total exhibition space.
It was acquired by the British Museum in 1882 (BM 92687); [4] the text was first translated in 1889. [5] The tablet is usually thought to have originated in Borsippa. [6] In 1995, a new section of the tablet was discovered, at the point of the upper-most triangle. [7] The map is used as the logo of the academic journal Imago Mundi. [8]
The British Museum reports that it has over 6,000 human remains in its collection, which it says are “managed in a way that protects the collection for the benefit of present and future ...
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 ...
Map of Germany from the Klencke Atlas. The Klencke Atlas, first published in 1660, is one of the world's largest atlases. [1] Originating in The Netherlands, it is 1.75 metres (5 ft 9 in) tall by 1.9 metres (6 ft 3 in) wide when open, [2] and so heavy the British Library needed six people to carry it.