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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.
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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.
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The Museums and Galleries Act 1992 (c. 44) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom the long title of which is "An Act to establish Boards of Trustees of the National Gallery, the Tate Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the Wallace Collection; to transfer property to them and confer functions on them; to make new provision as to transfers to and between the collections of ...
British Museum Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4. c. 39) British Museum (No. 2) Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4. c. 60) British Museum Act 1832 (2 & 3 Will. 4. c. 46) 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 General Register ...
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.