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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]
English: The British Museum Reading Room, with reading desk F1 closest on the right, and part of the outermost central ring closest on the left. Date 8 March 2004, 14:23:27
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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
List of Bibliographical Works in the Reading Room of the British Museum (2nd ed.). London. OCLC 3816244 – via Internet Archive. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ; Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: England". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company. pp. 714+.