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  2. British Museum - Wikipedia

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    The seven permanent Egyptian galleries at the British Museum, which include its largest exhibition space (Room 4, for monumental sculpture), can display only 4% of its Egyptian holdings. The second-floor galleries have a selection of the museum's collection of 140 mummies and coffins, the largest outside Cairo. A high proportion of the ...

  3. Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen - Wikipedia

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    Duveen quickly became enormously wealthy and made many philanthropic donations. He donated paintings to British galleries and gave considerable sums to repair and expand several galleries and museums. He built the Duveen Gallery of the British Museum to house the Elgin Marbles and funded a major extension of the Tate Gallery.

  4. British Museum Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan

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    The seven permanent Egyptian galleries at the British Museum, which include its largest exhibition space (Room 4, for monumental sculpture), can display only 4% of its Egyptian holdings. The second-floor galleries have a selection of the museum's collection of 140 mummies and coffins, the largest outside Cairo. A high proportion of the ...

  5. List of the most-visited attractions in the United Kingdom

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    The Valley Gardens at Windsor Great Park Natural History Museum, London British Museum, London. This article lists the most-visited attractions in the United Kingdom, including art galleries, gardens, zoos, theatres, libraries and museums.

  6. Which artefacts have the British Museum been urged to return?

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    The British Museum loaned a tribal warrior’s shield – carved from red mangrove wood and thought to date back to the New South Wales of the late 1700s – to the National Museum of Australia in ...

  7. Arrest after contractor allegedly ‘shut down’ British Museum ...

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    A former British Museum contract worker has been arrested after allegedly shutting down its IT systems, the London-based institution said. Part of the museum’s permanent collection was closed on ...

  8. King's Library - Wikipedia

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    It was housed in a specially built gallery in the British Museum from 1827 to 1997 and now forms part of the British Library. [2] The term "King's Library" was until recently also used to refer to the gallery in the British Museum built for the collection, which is now called the "Enlightenment Gallery" and displays a wide range of objects ...

  9. List of museums in London - Wikipedia

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    Museum of British Transport, Clapham (collections now at the National Railway Museum (York) and the London Transport Museum) [32] Museum of Mankind (collections now returned to the British Museum) Museum of the Moving Image (London) Nature Study Museum, 1904–1942 in the old mortuary of St George in the East church [33] [34]