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It was acquired by the British Museum in 1882 (BM 92687); [4] the text was first translated in 1889. [5] The tablet is usually thought to have originated in Borsippa. [6] In 1995, a new section of the tablet was discovered, at the point of the upper-most triangle. [7] The map is used as the logo of the academic journal Imago Mundi. [8]
The following is a list of museums ranked according to their floor area where published by reliable sources. Only museums with more than 20,000 square meters (220,000 sq ft) of floor space are included.
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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 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.
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Museum Street is a street in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, England. To the north is the British Museum, hence its current name. The street is populated by cafes and bookshops to appeal to the international museum-going public. [1] [2] To the north is Great Russell Street. To the south are Bloomsbury Way and New Oxford Street.
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.