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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.
106,000 objects [2] (Misleading collection, includes many objects from ancient settlements on the Northern Black Sea coast) British Museum, London, UK 100,000 objects [3] National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece 100,000 objects [4] Antikensammlung Berlin, (Held at the Altes Museum, Neues Museum and Pergamon Museum), Berlin, Germany
the Museum of Science and Industry, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Smart Museum of Art, and DuSable Museum in Hyde Park; Lincoln Park's Lincoln Park Zoo, Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago History Museum, Chicago Academy of Sciences/Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and Steppenwolf Theatre;
Pages in category "Museums of ancient Rome in the United States" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 2006, the Oriental Institute was the center of a controversy when a U.S. federal court lawsuit sought to seize and auction a valuable collection of ancient Persian tablets held by the museum. The proceeds were to compensate the victims of a 1997 bombing in Ben Yehuda Street , Jerusalem, an attack which the United States claimed was funded by ...
The Palazzo Massimo alle Terme is the main of the four sites of the Roman National Museum, along with the original site of the Baths of Diocletian, which currently houses the epigraphic and protohistoric section, Palazzo Altemps, home to the Renaissance collections of ancient sculpture, and the Crypta Balbi, home to the early medieval ...
Despite a 25 percent boost in museum admission fees, the Modern Wing was a major catalyst for a rise in visitor traffic. [51] In 2022, the museum welcomed 1.04 million visitors, an increase of 20 percent from 2021, but still well below 2018 attendance (before the COVID-19 pandemic).
Roman Imperial Coinage, abbreviated RIC, is a British catalogue of Roman Imperial currency, from the time of the Battle of Actium (31 BC) to Late Antiquity in 491 AD. It is the result of many decades of work, from 1923 to 1994, and a successor to the previous 8-volume catalogue compiled by the numismatist Henry Cohen in the 19th century.