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The British Museum Reading Room is the subject of an eponymous poem, "The British Museum Reading Room", by Louis MacNeice. Much of the action of David Lodge's 1965 novel The British Museum Is Falling Down takes place in the old Reading Room. The 'Glass Ceiling' of Anabel Donald's 1994 novel is the ceiling of the Reading Room, where the ...
At the centre of the Great Court is the Reading Room vacated by the British Library, its functions now moved to St Pancras. Today, the British Museum has grown to become one of the largest museums in the world, covering an area of over 92,000 m 2 (990,000 sq. ft).
The court has a tessellated glass roof, engineered by Buro Happold [2] and built by Waagner-Biro, [3] covering the entire court, and surrounds the original circular British Museum Reading Room in the centre, now a museum. It is the largest covered square in Europe. [4]
Reading room may refer to: Reference library; British Museum Reading Room; Christian Science Reading Room, a place where the public can study, borrow, or purchase Christian Science literature; The Reading Room, a 2005 American television film; The Reading Room (Hasenclever), an 1843 painting by Johann Peter Hasenclever
It was housed in a specially built gallery in the British Museum from 1827 to 1997 and now forms part of the British Library. [2] The term "King's Library" was until recently also used to refer to the gallery in the British Museum built for the collection, which is now called the "Enlightenment Gallery" and displays a wide range of objects ...
The Ipcress File (1965): An encounter between hero and villain, though using the exterior of the Royal School of Mines in South Kensington, used as the interior location a library at the British Museum (not the main reading room). [7] Day of the Jackal (1973): The Jackal is seen researching at the British Museum reading room. [8] [9] The ...
The Vienna Café, a haunt of artists and writers using the British Museum Reading Room, stood opposite the library on New Oxford Street. [9] Mudie's soon had outlets on Cross Street in Manchester and on New Street in Birmingham. Sketch of the interior of Mudie's Lending Library, 509, 510 & 511 New Oxford Street, London.
The British Museum is Falling Down is a comic novel by British author David Lodge about a 25-year-old poverty-stricken student of English literature who, rather than work on his thesis (entitled "The Structure of Long Sentences in Three Modern English Novels") in the reading room of the British Museum, is distracted time and again from his work and who gets into trouble instead.