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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.
American Museum of Natural History: New York City: 1869 Natural History: 1,790,000 sq ft (166,296 m 2) [8] [9] 32,000,000 [10] United States: British Museum: London: 1753 Archaeology and art 92,000 m 2 (990,000 sq ft) [11] 65,752 m 2 (707,750 sq ft) [11] More than 8,000,000 (largest in the world) United Kingdom: National Museum of China ...
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.
Environmental campaigners have urged the museum to end its sponsorship deal with BP over the years. British Museum signs new £50m BP deal to fund major renovation plans Skip to main content
This is a list of the most-visited museums in the world in 2023 by annual attendance statistics. Total attendance at the top sixty museums in 2023, as reported by the annual TEA-AECOM Museum survey, reached 94 percent of 2019 levels, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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 ]
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 ...
Museo Casa de la Moneda Archived 2020-06-01 at the Wayback Machine ... British Museum Department of Coins and Medals: 1,000,000 [17]