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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.
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.
The film features the British Museum in the story line, but was filmed at Shepherd's Bush Studios. [5] Night of the Demon (1957): John Holden (Dana Andrews) is seen researching in the British Museum reading room about the origin of an ancient but once powerful Satanic cult.
The Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities was the head of the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities (Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography until 1921). 1866–1896: Augustus Wollaston Franks; 1896–1921: Sir Charles Hercules Read; 1921–1928: Ormonde Maddock Dalton
Objects in the collection of the British Museum, London, England, sorted by department. See also Category:British Library collections, which were part of the British Museum before the establishment of the British Library in 1973.
The resignation was supported by staff members at the British Museum, who were reported by The Guardian to "expressed support" for Soueif. [4] In a 2018 letter to The Guardian, chair of the trustees Richard Lambert stated that the Elgin Marbles should remain in the museum and opposed their repatriation to the Greek government. [5]
Jill Cook, FSA (born 1954) is a British museum curator who is the acting Keeper of the Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory at the British Museum.She curates the collection of European Prehistory and is a specialist in Ice Age art [1] and the archaeology of human evolution.
Pages in category "Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the British Museum" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .