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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.
British Museum Act 1805; British Museum Act 1807; British Museum Act 1816; British Museum Act 1824; British Museum (No. 2) Act 1824; British Museum Act 1832; Museums Act 1845; National Gallery and Museums (Scotland) Act 1850; National Gallery of Ireland Act 1854; National Gallery of Ireland Act 1855; National Museum of Industry for Scotland and ...
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 states that it “takes its commitment to be a world museum seriously. The collection is a unique resource to explore the richness, diversity and complexity of all human history ...
Museum Planning is the creation of documents to describe a new museum’s vision, the visitor experience and an organizational plan for a new institution, or one undergoing a major expansion or change in focus. Museum plans may include some or all of the following: A review of institutional resources, assets and collections
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. The first house on the site was destroyed by fire in 1686.
The British Museum is to receive the highest-value gift in UK museum history as it acquires £1 billion worth of Chinese ceramics. Trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation are to donate 1,700 ...
The main block and facade of the British Museum, [34] Bloomsbury (1823–46). This is Smirke's largest and best-known building. This is Smirke's largest and best-known building. Having previously designed a temporary gallery for the Elgin Marbles following their acquisition by the British Museum in 1816, his role as architect to the Office of ...