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The Museum Data Service (MDS) is an initiative to provide an online repository of data about objects in the collections of accredited museums in the United Kingdom and associated territories. It is a collaboration between Art UK, the Collections Trust and the University of Leicester and was launched in September 2024. [1] [2] [3]
The database number may use the parameter "id=" if desired. If no database number is included then the text is prefixed by a link to the BM database help page. Note that database numbers should be identical to the "&objectId=" parameter value in the URL of the British Museum collection
Objects in the collection of the British Museum, London, England, sorted by department. See also Category:British Library collections, which were part of the British Museum before the establishment of the British Library in 1973.
In addition, departments or art classifications within the collection or museum may reserve sections of numbers. For example, objects identified by the numbers 11.000 through 11.999 may indicate objects obtained by the museum in 1911; the first 300 numbers might be used to indicate American art, while the next fifty (11.301–350) might be used ...
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The museum's first notable addition towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir William Hamilton (1730–1803), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Greek and Roman artefacts to the museum in 1784 together with a number of other antiquities and natural history specimens.
Greece’s Acropolis Museum launched an exhibition Tuesday that includes a renowned ancient Greek water jug from 420 B.C. on loan from the British Museum. The exhibit comes during a dispute ...
Parameter |id=, can be used for the database number instead of the full url. This automatically generates the url for the BM collection database record, with "objectid=" in the url. (This number is not to be confused with the British Museum "registration number", department based "big number" or the image identification numbers shown on ...