Презетация "Британский музей"

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British Museum The British Museum, in London, is one of the world's greatest museums of human history and culture. Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works, is the finest, most comprehensive, and largest in existence and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.

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Sir Hans Sloane The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane.

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At that time, Sloane's collection consisted of around 71,000 objects of all kinds including some 40,000 printed books, 7,000 manuscripts, extensive natural history specimens including 337 volumes of dried plants, prints and drawings including those by Albrecht Dürer and antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Ancient Near and Far East and the Americas. Sloane's collection

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The museum and reading room for scholars first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries. Montagu House

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Until 1997, when the British Library (previously centred on the Round Reading Room) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building. The Round Reading Room The Round Reading Room

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The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2001 to become the Great Court, surrounding the original Reading Room. Nowadays

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Today it has collections of natural history, and the books and manuscripts and now form part of the independent British Library. The original 1753 collection has grown to over thirteen million objects at the British Museum, 70 million at the Natural History Museum and 150 million at the British Library.

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Departments Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas Department of Asia Department of Conservation and Scientific Research Department of the Middle East

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Department of Prehistory and Europe Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan Department of Coins and Medals

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Department of Greece and Rome Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure Department of Prints and Drawings

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The British Museum, in London, is one of the world's greatest museums of human history and culture. Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works, is the finest, most comprehensive, and largest in existence and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. Conclusion