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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.
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.
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.
Over at the British Museum, the board of trustees took notice. A series of scandals, such as the one in which they discovered that a veteran curator had stolen more than 1,800 antiquities and sold ...
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 ...
British Museum project page ; Wikipedia and galleries, libraries, archives, & museums (GLAMs) ought to do more together: they have shared interests in presenting and making historical and cultural information available to the public.
Keepers at the British Museum - Conservation Technical Service and Research. Back Row L-R: Andrew Oddy, Dr Michael W. Pascoe, Harold Barker, Dr M Stile. Front Row L-R: Dr Harold Plenderleith, Dr Anthony Werner. The Keeper of Conservation and Scientific Research is head of the Department of Conservation and Scientific Research.
The British Museum Friends is linked to in History. Chipmunkdavis 03:34, 26 March 2011 (UTC) Thank you very much for your review. I will get to work on the improvements you have suggested. It really is a very interesting article to read with plenty of fascinating facts and certainly should be a Good Article at the very least.