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The scheme emerged from the museum sector. The scheme was established in 1988 as the Registration Scheme. [1] [2] It was rebranded the Accreditation Standard in 2005.[3]The Accreditation Standard and guidance for museums were reviewed and updated in 2018–19.
Long title: An Act to alter the composition of the Trustees of the British Museum, to provide for the separation from the British Museum of the British Museum (Natural History), to make new provision with respect to the regulation of the two Museums and their collections in place of that made by the British Museum Act 1753 and enactments amending or supplementing that Act, and for purposes ...
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 actual governance of the British Museum, however, is delegated to its board of trustees. [1] At the museum's inception its most senior member of staff was called "principal librarian". The job title became "director and principal librarian" in 1898, and "director" in 1973, on the separation of the British Library from the museum.
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.
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (1730–1799), trustee 1784–1799, a major collector of prints and books, who left his important collections to the museum. Charles Townley (1737–1805), trustee from 1791, his vast collection of Graeco-Roman marbles, bronzes and terracottas was acquired by the museum after his death, and a family trustee seat created.
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