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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.
First edition. The British Museum Library: A Short History and Survey is a book by Arundell Esdaile [1] published by George Allen & Unwin, London, in 1946.It was reprinted in 1979 by Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. from the 1948 ed. published by G. Allen & Unwin, London, which was issued as no. 9 of the Library Association series of library manuals.
The Keeper of Prehistoric and Romano-British Antiquities was head of the Department of Prehistoric and Romano-British Antiquities. The department was created from the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities in 1969. [12] 1973–1995: Ian Heaps Longworth [13] 1995–2000: Timothy W. Potter
The British Museum won the 2011 Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries for its part in the A History of the World in 100 Objects series. The prize, worth £100,000, was presented to the museum by Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, in a ceremony at London on 15 June 2011. [26]
Joseph Planta was born at Castasegna in Grisons, Switzerland, the son of Reverend Andrew (aka Andreas) Planta (1717–1773). [3] [4] [5] The Plantas were of noble origin.The reverend, who was minister of a Swiss Reformed Church, moved his family to London in 1752, where he took up a position with a German church (of which there were already several [6]).
Robert Neil MacGregor (born 16 June 1946) is a British art historian and former museum director. He was editor of the Burlington Magazine from 1981 to 1987, then Director of the National Gallery, London, from 1987 to 2002, Director of the British Museum from 2003 to 2015, [1] and founding director of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin until 2018.
Charlie Mayfield, chair of the British Museum’s masterplan committee, said: “The British Museum is one of the largest and most visited cultural institutions in the world but some of its ...
In 1989 the museum publicly re-branded itself as the Natural History Museum and stopped using the title British Museum (Natural History) on its advertising and its books for general readers. Only with the Museums and Galleries Act 1992 did the museum's formal title finally change to the Natural History Museum.