Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
A translator whose work was used by the British Museum without her permission reached a settlement with the institution following two months of negotiations and online campaigning — including ...
More than 100 members of the museum’s visitor services and security teams will take seven days’ action from February 13. Staff at British Museum to walk out during half-term break Skip to main ...
British Museum item 132940 Ivory plaque from Nimrud depicting two Egyptians. From the British Museum Many thanks to Prioryman for uploading these beautiful pictures of the recently acquired Nimrud ivories. However, more images of Nimrud ivories would be helpful for the Nimrud ivories article, especially these examples: 1856,0903.511 (female heads)
The British Museum reached a settlement with Yilin Wang after her translations of Chinese poetry by Qiu Jin were used in an exhibit without her permission.
An early American example of a book that describes an extended walking tour is naturalist John Muir's A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf (1916), a posthumous published account of a long botanising walk, undertaken in 1867. Due to industrialisation in England, people began to migrate to the cities where living standards were often cramped and ...
Keeper of the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the British Museum, Lissant Bolton, visited Easter Island in June 2019. [72] Leonardo Pakarati has filmed a documentary Te Kuhane o te tupuna or “The spirit of the ancestors”, in which Hoa Hakananai'a is a symbol stolen from Rapa Nui, whose spirit or mana must be recovered to ...
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 ...