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  1. British Museum

    Other uses British Museum disambiguation Infobox Museum name British Museum image British Museum from ... File British Museum Great Court roof.jpg thumb The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2001 to become the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court Great Court , surrounding the original British Museum Reading Room Reading Room . The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its ... the museum museum in london.aspx title British Museum website publisher Britishmuseum.org date 14 ... to the present. Ref label A a none The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based ... branch institutions, the first being the Natural History Museum British Museum Natural History ... of origin. Until 1997, when the British Library previously centred on the British Museum Reading Room Round Reading Room moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national ... Museum date 14 June 2010 accessdate 4 July 2010 ref Since 2002 the Director of the British Museum ... 1682270.stm work BBC News title National man for British Museum date 29 November 2001 accessdate ... of the British Museum File Sir Hans Sloane, an engraving from a portrait by T. Murray.jpg thumb ... antiquities today, the British Museum was founded as a universal museum . Its foundations lie in the will of the physician ... course 21701728 session1.html title Creating a Great Museum Early Collectors and The British Museum ... history.aspx title General history publisher British Museum date 14 June 2010 accessdate 4 July ... . ref Gavin R de Beer, Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum London, 1953 . ref Foundation 1753 On 7 ... and illustrations of the Museum. Wilson, David, M. 2002 . The British Museum A History. London The British Museum Press, pg 346 ref including the Lindisfarne Gospels and the sole surviving copy of Beowulf . Ref label C c none The British Museum was the first of a new kind of museum national, belonging ... title The British Museum Images publisher Bmimages.com date accessdate 4 July 2010 ref The addition ...   more details



  1. British Museum (disambiguation)

    British Museum may refer to The British Museum in Bloomsbury, London The British Museum Natural History , the former name of the Natural History Museum British Museum tube station , a former station on the London Underground The British Museum algorithm The British Museum leather dressing The British Museum Is Falling Down The British Museum Friends Disambig ...   more details



  1. British Lawnmower Museum

    Infobox museum name British Lawnmower Museum image imagesize 200 caption alt established collection area location 106 114 Shakespeare Street, Southport PR8 5AJ visitors director website http www.lawnmowerworld.co.uk British Lawnmower Museum The British Lawnmower Museum is a museum on lawnmower s in Southport , Merseyside , northern England . ref http www.culture24.org.uk mw106 British Lawnmower Museum, Southport , Culture24 , UK. ref The museum has over 300 restored exhibits of garden machinery over the last 200 years. ref http www.visitliverpool.com site british lawnmower museum p54963 British Lawnmower Museum , http www.visitliverpool.com Liverpool and Merseyside Tourist Information , UK. ref Lawnmowers included that of Prince Charles and Princess Diana . The museum has workshops that restore lawnmowers for the collection and others around the world. ref http www.lawnmowerworld.co.uk museumprofile.html Museum Profile , British Lawnmower Museum, UK. ref The collection includes patents and blueprints dating from 1799. References reflist External links http www.lawnmowerworld.co.uk British Lawnmower Museum website coord 53.639381 N 3.004895 W display title UK museum stub Category Museums in Merseyside Category Southport Category Technology museums in the United Kingdom Category Lawn mower ...   more details



  1. British Museum Press

    Notability date September 2010 Merge to British Museum date September 2010 British Museum Press or BMP is the publishing business of British Museum Company BMCo , a registered charity established in 1973 to encompass all commercial activity undertaken by the British Museum . ref http www.britishmuseum.org the museum jobs bmco jobs.aspx ref The British Museum Company employs staff to fulfill a number of roles including publishing, wholesale and retail activities, licensing, merchandise development and marketing. Its office is on the northern corner of the museum site at 38 Russell Square, London WC1B 3QQ. References Reflist External links http www.britishmuseumshoponline.org British Museum Company http www.facebook.com pages British Museum Shop 109193839654 British Museum Shop on Facebook coord 51 31 14.5 N 0 7 37 W type landmark region GB CMD display title Category Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom Category British Museum Category Shops in London ...   more details



  1. List of directors of the British Museum

    The Director of the British Museum is the head of the British Museum in London , a post currently held by Neil MacGregor . He is responsible for that institution s general administration and reports its accounts to the Her Majesty s Government British Government . The actual governance of the British Museum, however, is delegated to its Board of Trustees. ref http www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk the museum about us management and governance museum governance.aspx Principal Librarians and Directors of the British Museum , British Museum , London, UK. ref 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 . Principal Librarian of the British Museum 1756 1756 1772 Gowin Knight 1772 1776 Matthew Maty 1776 1799 Charles Morton librarian Charles Morton 1799 1827 Joseph Planta librarian Joseph Planta 1827 1856 Henry Ellis librarian Henry Ellis 1856 1866 Anthony Panizzi 1866 1873 John Winter Jones 1873 1888 Edward Augustus Bond 1888 1898 Edward Maunde Thompson Director and Principal Librarian of the British Museum 1898 1898 1909 Edward Maunde Thompson 1909 1931 Frederic G. Kenyon Frederic George Kenyon 1931 1936 George ... Francis 1969 1974 John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden John Wolfenden Director of the British Museum 1973 1974 1977 John Pope Hennessy 1977 1992 David M. Wilson 1992 2002 Robert Anderson museum director Robert Anderson 2002 present Neil MacGregor See also List of Trustees of the British Museum References reflist British Museum directors British Museum Category British Museum directors Category British Museum Category Lists of British people by occupation de Liste der Direktoren des British Museum fr Liste des directeurs du British Museum la Index bibliothecariorum et directorum Musei Britannici necnon Bibliothecae Britannicae sv Lista ver chefer f r British Museum ...   more details



  1. British Museum Quarterly

    unreferenced date November 2010 infobox journal title British Museum Quarterly cover editor Trustees of the British Museum discipline Art and Art History abbreviation publisher British Museum country United Kingdom frequency quarterly history 1926 1973 openaccess license impact impact year website link1 link1 name link2 link2 name JSTOR 0007151X OCLC 300432851 LCCN 2008242355 CODEN ISSN 0007 151X eISSN The British Museum Quarterly was a Peer review peer reviewed academic journal published by the British Museum . It described recent acquisitions and research concerning the museum s collections and was published from 1926 to 1973. It is available electronically from JSTOR . Category Art journals Category Publications established in 1926 Category Publications disestablished in 1973 Category English language journals Category Defunct journals Category Quarterly journals ...   more details



  1. The British Museum Friends

    infobox Organization name The British Museum Friends image BFM logo.jpg size 58 abbreviation BMF motto formation 1968 extinction type Charity status purpose Supports the British Museum with Grant money ... the Museum. headquarters location British Museum region served England and Wales membership ... remarks Current Chairman David Norgrove The British Museum Friends BMF is a registered charitable organisation in the United Kingdom UK with close links to the British Museum , and was set up in 1968. It provides funding in the form of grants to the British Museum in order to support the educational ... The British Museum Friends website ref ref http www.laboratorytalk.com news hit hit158.html Electron microscopes assist work at British Museum Laboratory Talk website May 28 2008 ref Acquisitions ... join in membership how your money helps.aspx Recent Acquisitions British Museum ... astrolabe saved by the British Museum.html Unique medieval astrolabe saved by the British Museum ...?m 30173&amid 30202241 British Museum s new acquisition History Today 11 March 2003 ref a Mycenaean ... Gold mancus of Coenwulf on the British Museum website ref , ref http www.guardian.co.uk culture culturevultureblog ... for British Museum and Derby with Art Fund help on Art Fund website ref Other acquisitions funded ... http www.britishmuseum.org pdf TAR08 09.pdf The British Museum Reports and Accounts for the Year Ended 31 March 2009 ref ref The British Museum Friends Annual Review to 31 March 2009 ref American Friends of the British Museum The American Friends of the British Museum AFBM was set up in 1989 as a not for profit ... Museum. ref http www.afbm.org Website of the American Friends of the British Museum ref Since its founding, American Friends of the British Museum has contributed over 30 million to support a variety of projects at the British Museum, including The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court Special exhibitions ... The British Museum Friends website http www.archaeology.co.uk national bodies ...   more details



  1. Ethnography at the British Museum

    Anthropology Ethnography at the British Museum describes how ethnography has developed at the British Museum . Within the Department of Natural History and Curiosities The ethnographical collection was originally ... Era Resources Era Pitt Rivers musantob histmus6.html Pitt Rivers attitude to the British Museum W. Chapman ... James Cook and his companions between 1767 and 1780, and presented to the British Museum by the Lords .... Some material found its way to G ttingen , ref History of Ethnography in the Museum after 1753 pt1 by HJ Braunholtz, The British Museum Quarterly , 1953 ref where August Ludwig Schl zer was developing ... his second Arctic voyage of 1829. ref History of Ethnography in the Museum after 1753 pt1 by HJ Braunholtz, The British Museum Quarterly , 1953 ref Within the Department of Antiquities In 1836 the Department ... Christian J rgensen Thomsen visited the British Museum in 1843, he did not hide his disappointment he was unimpressed by the British antiquities everywhere covered in dust and not much esteemed and complained ... Pitt Rivers attitude to the British Museum W. Chapman s unpublished D.Phil thesis, accessed 21 June ... field Collecting 2 Ethnography in the British Museum W. Chapman s unpublished D.Phil thesis, accessed ... benefited. ref The Story of the British Museum by Marjorie Caygill, British Museum Press, 2nd edition 1992, p4574 ref Museum of Mankind From 1970 to 2004 the Department of Ethnography of the British ... back to the British Museum in Bloomsbury in 2004. Exhibitions held at the Museum of Mankind The Power of the Hand , African arms and armour, 1995 Notable ethnographers who have worked at the British Museum Karl Marx who produced his Ethnographic Notebooks was a regular user of the British Museum Reading ... 2004 05 01 ref References reflist Category British Museum Category Ethnography Category Ethnographic museums British Museum ... additional material was transferred from the artificial curiosities held by the museum of the Royal ...   more details



  1. British Museum Act 1902

    The British Museum Act 1902 2 Edw 7 c. 12 was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom , given the royal assent on 22 July 1902 and repealed in 1963. Image British Library Newspapers.JPG thumb 250px British Library Newspapers, Colindale In order to alleviate the storage problems at the British Museum in London, England, it empowered the trustees to remove newspapers and other printed matter which are rarely required for public use to a new storage building at Hendon , on the condition that suitable arrangements were put in place for these materials to be consulted at the main buildings on request. These are to be found in the British Library Newspapers British Library Newspapers section located in Colindale . The Act was repealed by the British Museum Act 1963 . References The Public General Acts Passed in the Second Year of the Reign of His Majesty King Edward the Seventh . London printed for His Majesty s Stationery Office. 1902. Chronological table of the statutes HMSO , London. 1993. British Library stub Category United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1902 Category British Library Act 1902 Category British Museum Act 1902 Category 1963 disestablishments Category 1902 in London ...   more details



  1. British Golf Museum

    The British Golf Museum is located opposite the Clubhouse at the Royal and Ancient Golf Club in St Andrews , Scotland . The museum, which opened in 1990, documents the history of golf from Medieval times to the present, including the men s and women s games, British and international, both professional and amateur. Exhibits include historic equipment, memoribilia and art work, documentation, the history of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, and the rules and terminology of the game. The museum is open to the public seven days a week throughout the year. References reflist External links http www.britishgolfmuseum.co.uk Official site St Andrews Scottish Museums and Art Galleries Category Golf in Scotland Category Golf museums and halls of fame Category Museums in Fife Category Sports museums in Scotland Category St Andrews golf stub Scotland org stub UK museum stub fr British Golf Museum ...   more details



  1. File:British Museum tube.jpg

    British Museum Tube Station, 17th November 2004 Image by Atelier Joly Taken from Eastbond Central Line tube train GFDL with disclaimers migration relicense ...   more details



  1. Royal British Columbia Museum

    infobox Museum name Royal British Columbia Museum image Royal Museum Front.jpg established 1886 location Victoria, British Columbia Victoria , British Columbia , Canada . type provincial history museum director curator visitors website http www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca The Royal British Columbia Museum is a natural history museum in Victoria, British Columbia Victoria , British Columbia .... The museum is in Victoria s Inner Harbour, between the The Empress Hotel Empress Hotel and the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia Legislature Buildings . The museum anchors the Royal BC Museum ... reflist External links Commons category Royal British Columbia Museum http www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca ... IMAX venues de Royal British Columbia Museum pt Museu Real da Col mbia Brit nica ... Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II in 1986. It merged with the British Columbia Provincial Archives ... . In October 2008, the museum was named one of BC s Top Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc. ref cite web url http www.eluta.ca top employer royal bc museum title Reasons for Selection, 2009 BC s Top ... that includes a model of the original Fort Victoria British Columbia Fort Victoria and a large ... Curtis . ref Gloria Frank, That s my dinner on display First Nations Reflection on Museum Culture, BC Studies 125 126 2000 ref Affiliations The Museum is affiliated with Canadian Museums Association CMA , Canadian Heritage Information Network CHIN , and Virtual Museum of Canada . Images Gallery Image Thunderbird Park Royal Museum BC.jpg Thunderbird Park with the museum in the background Image ... A totem pole on the grounds of the Royal BC Museum File Okanagan Family Portrait.JPg Okanagan Syilx family portrait File TotemPoleVictoriaBC 2.jpg A totem pole located outside the Royal BC Museum File ... exhibit at the Royal BC Museum File Elizabeth RBC.jpg A car in a recreated garage at the Royal BC Museum File Royal Museum Front.jpg The main entrance of the Royal BC Museum File Totempfaehle vor BC ...   more details



  1. British Museum algorithm

    The British Museum algorithm is a general approach to find a solution by checking all possibilities one by one, beginning with the smallest. The term refers to a conceptual, not a practical, technique where the number of possibilities are enormous. For instance, one may, in theory, find the smallest program that solves a particular problem in the following way Generate all possible source codes of length one character. Check each one to see if it solves the problem. Note the halting problem makes this check troublesome. If not, generate and check all programs of two characters, three characters, etc. Conceptually, this finds the smallest program, but in practice it tends to take an unacceptable amount of time more than the lifetime of the universe, in many instances . Similar arguments can be made to show that optimizations, theorem proving, language recognition, etc. is possible or impossible. Newell, Shaw, and Simon ref name newell cite article author Allen Newell, J.C. Shaw and Herbert A. Simon year 1958 title Elements of a theory of human problem solving journal Psychological Review volume 65 number 3 month May pages 151 166 ref called this procedure the British Museum algorithm ... since it seemed to them as sensible as placing monkeys in front of typewriters in order to reproduce all the books in the British Museum. http library.thinkquest.org C005693 page8.html See also Branch and bound Breadth first search Brute force search British Museum Infinite monkey theorem Sources Original text by DADS British Museum technique britishMuseum . References Reflist Category Algorithms Category British Museum Algorithm fr Algorithme du British Museum nl British Museum algoritme zh ...   more details



  1. British Museum tube station

    Infobox Closed London station name British Museum image Image British museum tube stn map.png owner Central ... end 1933 replace Holborn tube station Holborn tubestation yes British Museum tube station was a station on the London Underground s Central Line , located on Bury Place, close to the British Museum in central ... constructed between the GNP&BR and the CLR because the tunnel alignment to British Museum station ... a more prominent location for a station than that chosen by the CLR. Image British Museum Map Mockup.png thumb left How British Museum tube station might have appeared on the London Underground Map ... case, better situated than British Museum, as it had better tram connections Holborn had a Holborn ... platforms at Holborn opening the following day. ref name rose British Museum station was subsequently ... British Museum tube 2004 alt.jpg thumb right British Museum Tube Station in 2004 The station is made ..., protests that there is no British Museum Station only to be proved wrong when the train he is on stops ... stated as being between Holborn and British Museum stations in a conversation between Pleasance ... only state Museum as the name. Image Nationwide British Museum tube station.jpg left thumb Nationwide Building Society at the location of the former British Museum tube station The station did feature ... from the British Museum and finds the station. She then manages to stop the passing trains. The station in the game, however, is depicted as having its exit actually inside the British Museum itself ... References reflist External links commonscat British Museum tube station http www.abandonedstations.org.uk British Museum station.html London s Abandoned Tube Stations British Museum http underground ... 01 i0000601.jpg British Museum station, 1930 ltmcollection pk i00001pk.jpg Disused eastbound ... DEFAULTSORT British Museum Tube Station Category Central Line stations Category Disused London Underground ... Category British Museum Tube station de British Museum London Underground fa ...   more details



  1. The British Postal Museum & Archive

    infobox museum name Image BPMA logo fairuse.png 250px The British Postal Museum & Archive image established ... The British Postal Museum & Archive BPMA is the leading resource for all aspects of the history of the United Kingdom British postal system . It operates two sites The Royal Mail Archive at Mount Pleasant sorting office in Clerkenwell , London and a Museum Store in Loughton , Essex ... s first adhesive postage stamp . ref name British Postal Museum & Archive cite web url http postalheritage.org.uk aboutus organisation title British Postal Museum & Archive publisher British Postal Museum & Archive span style font size 8pt accessdate 8 November 2010 span font ref The General Post Office remained a British government department until 1969, when it became a public corporation . In 1981 telecommunications transferred to British Telecom , and in 1986 there was a division of letter ... as The British Postal Museum & Archive . Since 2004, the BPMA has expanded its work into providing a programme of events, exhibitions, education and web resources. ref name British Postal Museum ... The British Postal Museum & Archive website DEFAULTSORT British Postal Museum & Archive Category Museums ... in Islington fr The British Postal Museum & Archive References references ... Mail Group . A short history of the British postal service In 1635, Charles I of England King Charles ..., the first National Postal Museum NPM was established, in part due to the http www.postalheritage.org.uk phillips Phillips Collection of Victorian philately being donated to the nation. The museum was opened ... over the years far more than could be displayed in the small museum. In 1998, the King Edward Building was sold, and the NPM closed. The collections were retained and the management of the museum and archive ... at Freeling House in London. The former National Postal Museum collections were donated to the BPMA by Royal Mail Group. These are currently housed in a Museum Store in Essex. This is open to the public ...   more details



  1. British Empire and Commonwealth Museum

    Infobox Museum name British Empire and Commonwealth Museum image Bristol Temple Meads old station frontage ... visitors director website http www.empiremuseum.co.uk www.empiremuseum.co.uk The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum gbmapping ST597725 was a museum in Bristol , United Kingdom exploring the history of the British Empire and the effect of British colonial rule on the rest of the world. The museum ... server show conGap.6 title British Empire and Commonwealth Museum accessdate 2007 03 13 format work English Heritage ref The museum had a flourishing publications department, producing ... in the making, is to have a new home at the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum in Bristol. The tapestry ... aboutus aboutus.htm title About Us publisher British Empire & Commonwealth Museum accessdate ... 2011 mar 17 british empire museum director dismissed title Museum director leaves post amid police ... External links http www.empiremuseum.co.uk British Empire & Commonwealth Museum website http www.imagesofempire.com ... of titles of the regiments of the Honourable British East India Company East India Company and East Indian Armies. The museum also held the collection of artefacts of the Commonwealth Institute extensive still photograph, paper, film and oral history archives, and a costume collection. The museum ... ref name Pow Wow cite web url http www.dayoutwiththekids.co.uk event.php?id 288 title British Empire and Commonwealth Museum Bristol Pow Wow Special exhibition until 1st November 2006 format html ... s first empire in America. ref On 23 November 2007 the museum announced it would be moving its ... relationalnews.htm move title News accessdate 2007 03 13 format work British Empire and Commonwealth Museum ref However, after closing in 2008 the move did not take place as planned and it has been ... trust consequently an admission charge was made. The museum closed to the public in the autumn of 2008 ... of the museum, Mr Gareth Griffiths, had been dismissed pending a police investigation ...   more details



  1. List of trustees of the British Museum

    The following is a list of current and past trustees of the British Museum . Entries on this list are demonstrated as notable by having an associated Wikipedia article and or footnotes with supporting citations. Current trustees The Board of Trustees comprises up to 25 members. One Trustee is appointed by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom Her Majesty , 15 are appointed by the Prime Minister and five appointed by the Trustees. Four Trustees are appointed by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport on the nominations of the Presidents of the Royal Academy , the British Academy , the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Royal Society . ref cite web url http www.britishmuseum.org the museum management and governance trustees.aspx title Trustees publisher British Museum date accessdate 2010 06 19 ref div col Chief Emeka Anyaoku Karen Armstrong Christopher Bayly Lord Broers of Cambridge Ronald Cohen Francis Finlay Niall FitzGerald Chair Liz Forgan Val Gooding Antony Gormley 2007 Stephen Green Bonnie Greer Penny Hughes George Iacobescu Olga Kennard Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws Richard Lambert Edm e P Leventis ref A founder of Hellenic Centre in London, wife of Constantine Leventis, Ambassador of Cyprus to Unesco and chairman of the A.G. Leventis foundation which funded the A.G. Leventis Gallery. See cite news title Constantine Leventis date 19 August 2002 newspaper The Independent url http www.independent.co.uk news obituaries constantine leventis 640341.html ref David ... Section date June 2010 see also Category Trustees of the British Museum div col Noel Annan, Baron ... Trustee of the British Museum quote Professor Barry Cunliffe has been appointed Trustee of the British Museum. His appointment took effect from 4 October 2000 and runs for a period of five years ... References reflist British Museum DEFAULTSORT List Of Trustees Of The British Museum Category Lists of people by institutional affiliation Category Trustees of the British Museum ...   more details



  1. British Museum Reading Room

    name British Museum Reading Room image British Museum Great Court roof.jpg caption The Reading Room stands in the centre of the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court Great Court of the British Museum . location ... dome style The British Museum Reading Room , situated in the centre of the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court Great Court of the British Museum , used to be the main reading room of the British Library ... Room remains in its original form inside the new British Museum. Designed by Sydney Smirke ... the museum the building reading room.aspx British Museum Reading Room information ref ... s collections, on open shelves. In 2006, the British Museum announced its plans to modify the Reading ... and archives.aspx Museum libraries and archives , British Museum. ref References in art and popular culture The British Museum Reading Room has become iconic. It is the subject of an eponymous poem, The British Museum Reading Room , by Louis MacNeice . Much of the action of David Lodge author David Lodge s 1965 in literature 1965 novel The British Museum Is Falling Down takes place in the old ... the denouement is set. Alfred Hitchcock used the Reading Room and the dome of the British Museum ... work of fiction in which the British Museum Reading Room plays an important part as a setting is New Grub Street by George Gissing, published in 1891. Wide image British Museum Reading Room Panorama ... Room center References Reflist Further reading A history of the British Museum Library, 1753 1973. British Library, 1998, ISBN 0712345620, 9780712345620 Wilson, David M. The British Museum A History . The British Museum Press, 2002, ISBN 0714127647 External links Commonscat http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi entertainment 329922.stm BBC information British Museum Category 1857 establishments Category British Museum Reading Room Category British Library Category Grade I listed library buildings Category Domes bg fr Salle de lecture du British Museum nl Reading Room van het ...   more details



  1. Royal Commission on the British Museum

    The Royal Commission on the British Museum RCBM was set up to review the activities of the British Museum particularly in relation to its British Library Library . The Commission was set up following an approach made by a number of eminent scientists to John Russell, 1st Earl Russell Lord John Russell , the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Prime Minister sent on 10 March 1847. ref The Life of Sir Anthony Panizzi , Volume 1, by Louis Alexander Fagan , p256 ref On June 1847 the original Commission was set up with eleven members and a quorum of five. Having met three times by the end of the year, it was found that the Revolutions of 1848 revolutionary events on the continent of Europe provided a distraction, and the commission failed to meet its quorum on occasions. On 5 May 1848 the commission was re established with fourteen members and a quorum of three. ref name r257 The Life of Sir Anthony Panizzi , Volume 1, by Louis Alexander Fagan, p257 ref Composition The Commission was headed by Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere Lord Ellesmere . Other active members included Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset Lord Seymour , Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning Lord Canning , Roderick Murchison , Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd Lord Rutherfurd . John Payne Collier acted as secretary which was before his activities as forger had come to light . ref name r257 British Museum Library Catalogue A major part of the RCBM was concerned with the British Museum Library Catalogue. References reflist British Library stub Category British royal commissions Category British Museum Category British Library Category 1850 establishments ...   more details



  1. File:British Museum Harihara.JPG

    Information Description Photo of Harihara taken at the British Museum Source Self Photograph Date June 2007 Author User Redtigerxyz Redtigerxyz Permission Own work, copyleft Multi license with GFDL and Creative Commons CC BY SA 2.5 and older versions 2.0 and 1.0 other versions self2 GFDL cc by sa 2.5,2.0,1.0 migration relicense ...   more details



  1. File:British-museum-head.jpg

    Summary Information Description Head of a statue in the British Museum Source I created this work entirely by myself. Date 30 April 2008 Author Michael Kooiman other versions Licensing self cc by sa 3.0 GFDL migration redundant ...   more details



  1. British Commercial Vehicle Museum

    coord 53.6947 2.6926 display title region GB scale 2000 The British Commercial Vehicle Museum displays antiquarian bus es, early Fire engines and other historical and commercial vehicles produced by the Manufacturing in the United Kingdom British Manufacturing Industry . The museum is located in King Street, Leyland, Lancashire on a site previously occupied by the Leyland Motors Factory, the source of many exhibits. Funding methods include the admission charges and membership tickets. Shortfalls must be funded by the sale of exhibits. ref BCVM http www.bcvm.co.uk prices.htm admission ref Events include the Classic & Vintage Ford Day Vintage Motor Scooter Day and the Meccano , Dinky & Hornby Exhibition Event. Exhibits Exhibits include the purpose built Popemobile from the Pastoral trip of Pope John Paul II to the United Kingdom in 1982. ref name BBC4 BBC Four , Behind the Scenes at the Museum 1. Commercial Vehicle Museum 7 30pm Tuesday 18th May 2010 ref The 24 ton armour plated vehicle was built for the visit by British Leyland . ref Scots Popemobile to go on eBay for Pounds 1m , The Sunday Times May 15, 2005 ref Other exhibits that have been displayed include a 1922 12hp Star Motor Company vehicle and a Leyland Tiger Cub , lorries and a Steam tractor ref name BBC4 References reflist External links http bcvm.co.uk British Commercial Vehicle Museum http www.culture24.org.uk am18605 Entry in the 24 Hour Museum http www.lancashire.gov.uk corporate web view.asp?siteid 2856&pageid 4946&e e Local government information Category Automobile museums in England Category Museums in Lancashire Category Bus museums in England Category Industry museums in the United Kingdom UK museum stub ...   more details



  1. British Museum Department of Asia

    century, Ming Dynasty . The Department of Asia in the British Museum is one of the largest collections ... from the Neolithic age up to the present. ref cite web url http www.britishmuseum.org the museum departments asia.aspx title British Museum Asia accessdate 2008 01 20 ref The collection formerly .... ref cite web url http www.britishmuseum.org the museum departments asia history of the collection.aspx title British Museum History of the collection accessdate 2008 01 20 ref Highlights of the collection ... from Dunhuang . China was one of the first countries to use coins, and the museum also has a large collection of Chinese coins housed in the British Museum Department of Coins and Medals Department .... The British Museum is actively collecting 20th century material from the Islamic world, including ... and Urasenke galleries , were opened on 6 April 1990 ref http www.britishmuseum.org the museum departments asia galleries.aspx British Museum Asia galleries ref , and include Printmaking prints , printed ... BrMus Japan.JPG British Museum, Japanese section Samurai armour Image BrMus Japan1.JPG British Museum, Japanese section Boddhisattva gallery Korea collection The Korea Foundation Gallery houses the museum ... links commons cat Department of Asia, British Museum Department of Asia, British Museum http ... explore galleries middle east room 34 the islamic world.aspx British Museum Room 34 The Islamic ... asia room 67 korea.aspx British Museum Room 67 Korea http www.britishmuseum.org explore galleries asia rooms 92 94 japan.aspx British Museum Rooms 92 94 Japan British Museum Category British ... Amaravati. ref http www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk explore galleries asia room 33a amaravati.aspx British Museum Room 33a Amaravati ref An outstanding collection of Chinese antiquities, paintings, porcelain ... of the department Most of the Department of Asia is located in the northern section of the museum ... Islam collection The John Addis gallery room 34 houses the museum s collection of Islamic art ...   more details



  1. British Schools Museum

    Image hitchinschools1.jpg thumb The British Schools Museum in Hitchin. The British Schools Museum is an educational museum based in original Edwardian era Edwardian and Victorian era Victorian school buildings in Hitchin in Hertfordshire , England . ref http www.culture24.org.uk am19731 British Schools Museum , Culture 24 , UK. ref The museum complex is made up of Grade II listed school buildings housing infants, girls and boys schools with houses for Master and Mistress. ref http www.ukschoolmuseumsgroup.org.uk index.php?option com content&task view&id 5&Itemid 15 British Schools Museum , http www.ukschoolmuseumsgroup.org.uk UK School Museums Group , UK. ref It includes a Bell Lancaster method ... Jill Grey, a local educational historian , opened a small Museum in one of the Edwardian era Edwardian ... the buildings up for sale. The Hitchin British Schools Trust was formed and by 1994 they were successful ... the schoolrooms to reflect their original condition, and work continues to improve them. The Museum ... how their ancestors were taught. See also British and Foreign School Society List of museums in Hertfordshire References reflist Further reading Fiona Dodwell. Hitchin British Schools A History of the Buildings . Published by Hitchin British Schools Trust 1999. Jacky Birch, Scilla Douglas, Pauline Humphries ... Boys British Schools 1810 1929 . Published by the Hitchin British Schools Trust 2008. External links http www.hitchinbritishschools.org.uk The British Schools Museum website http www.bbc.co.uk ww2peopleswar user 42 u1452442.shtml The Museum on the BBC People s War website http www.hertsdirect.org comdirectory comvol herit2y htmus3y locmus 878144 The Museum on the Hertfordshire County Council website http www.hitchin.angle.uk.com attractions britschmus.html The Museum on the Hitchin Attractions website http www.museums.co.uk companydetails.asp?Companys Museum 7C6806&Location hertfordshire&Radius &CompanyType 0&Page 1&keyword The Museum on the MuseumNet website coord 51 56 46 N 0 16 33 W ...   more details



  1. Secretum (British Museum)

    culture Category Collections of museums in the United Kingdom Category British Museum Museum stub ...The Secretum was a name given to Cupboard 55 in the Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities at the British Museum , London . It previously contained the collection of ancient erotica given to the museum by George Witt 1804 1869 , physician and collector of phallic antiquities. Inaccessible by the public, it was a repository for exhibits of an erotic nature. ref name Petrides2009 cite book last Petrides first Olivia title Anthem Guide to the Art Galleries and Museums of Europe url http books.google.com books?id U3HNmJFxyFwC&pg PA321 accessdate 17 October 2010 date March 2009 publisher Anthem Press isbn 9781843312734 page 321 authormask trans title format origyear oclc doi bibcode id quote laysummary laydate ref All the objects previously held in the Secretum have now been integrated into their respective cultural collections though claiming to be from ancient cultures, many of them were in fact Victorian fakes and so are now kept off display for this reason rather than for their obscenity , and the museum s attitudes to material previously deemed to be obscene has now changed, as shown by the Warren Cup . Appearances in popular culture The Secretum may be the inspiration for the secret annexe of the British Museum, the base of operations for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in the eponymous series of comics. Exhibits there include a yahoo literature yahoo skull from Jonathan Swift s Gulliver s Travels and statues labelled Cult of Ayesha novel Ayesha from H. Rider Haggard s She novel She , continuing the high game of literary allusions throughout the series. See also Secret Museum, Naples References Reflist cite journal last Gaimster first David title Sex and Sensibility at the British Museum journal History Today volume 50 issue 9 pages 10 15 publisher History Today month September year 2000 url http www.historytoday.com dt main allatonce.asp?gid 10989&aid &tgid ...   more details




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