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  2. British Museum - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Natural History Museum, London - Wikipedia

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    In 1989 the museum publicly re-branded itself as the Natural History Museum and stopped using the title British Museum (Natural History) on its advertising and its books for general readers. Only with the Museums and Galleries Act 1992 did the museum's formal title finally change to the Natural History Museum.

  4. Queen Elizabeth II Great Court - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  5. National museums of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The national museums of the UK are funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) of the British government, and are all located in England. There are 14 national museums, all established by Acts of Parliament, as well as another eight which are sponsored by the DCMS.

  6. Bloomsbury - Wikipedia

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    The British Museum, which first opened to the public in 1759 in Montagu House, is at the heart of Bloomsbury. At the centre of the museum the space around the former British Library Reading Room , which was filled with the concrete storage bunkers of the British Library, is today the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court , an indoor square with a ...

  7. File:British museum tube stn map.png - Wikipedia

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    British_museum_tube_stn_map.png ‎ (200 × 155 pixels, file size: 18 KB, MIME type: image/png) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.

  8. Montagu House, Bloomsbury - Wikipedia

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    The garden front of Montagu House. The entrance front. A plan of Montagu House from Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus.. Montagu House (sometimes spelled "Montague") was a late 17th-century mansion in Great Russell Street in the Bloomsbury district of London, which became the first home of the British Museum.

  9. Copperplate map of London - Wikipedia

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    The "Copperplate" map of London is an early large-scale printed map of the City of London and its immediate environs, surveyed between 1553 and 1559, which survives only in part. It is the earliest true map of London (as opposed to panoramic views , such as those of Anton van den Wyngaerde ).