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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.
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 ]
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.
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.
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 ...
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The trustees of the museum also purchased the Harleian Library collection of Robert Harley (d. 1721) for £10,000; [19] [20] [a] Also provided to the library was the Cotton library, the former collection of Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631); this was already in public possession and had been housed at Ashburnham House, Westminster. [20]