British Museum

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British Museum nyɛla sokam zaa taarihi duu din jɛndi ninsalinima taarihi, nucheeni baŋsim n-ti pahi kaya ni taada ka nyɛ din be Bloomsbury yaɣili zaŋ n-ti London. Di nyɛla di ni tooi deegi tumanima kamani miliyɔŋ dibaa anii, di ni nyɛ bari dunia zaa. Di nyɛla din mali taarihi zaŋ jɛndi ninsalinima kaya ni taada tum biɛhigu piligu zaŋ hali na ni zuŋɔ. Bɛ daa miɛ li la yuuni 1753, the British Museum ŋɔ n daa nyɛ tuuli sokam dunia zaa national museum. Yuuni 2023, salo ban kalinli yiɣisi 5,820,860 nyɛla ban daa chaŋ museum ŋɔ ni, ka di kalinli ŋɔ nyɛla din gari yuun shɛŋa din gari maa kalinli kamani kɔbigi puuni vaabu 42%. Laɣingu shɛli nyɛla ban yɛlli ni di ni gaŋdu United Kingdom.

Di piligu, museum ŋɔ nyɛla din daa na mali Anglo-Irish physician mini tabibi baŋda Sir Hans Sloanelahabaya. Di nyɛla bɛ ni daa yoogi shɛli n-ti lahabali kam deebu yuuni 1759, Montagu House. Museum ŋɔ nyɛla din daa yɛligi pam yuun kɔbishii ni pihinu din daa doli na maa.

Yuuni 1973, British Library Act 1972 nyɛla bɛ ni daa waligi shɛli ka che British Museum amaa ka leei na kuli mali British Library din be lala karimbu shee ŋɔ hali ni yuuni 1997. Kamani UK national museums zaa, di ni bi deeri kpɛbu na liɣiri zaŋ n-ti "loan exhibitions".

Taarihi

Sir Hans Sloane

Sir Hans Sloane

Di mini di malila kaya ni taɣada maa zaa yoli, British Museum daa nyɛla di kpa ka di nyɛla binshɛɣu kam ni tooi be din ni "universal museum". Di kpami doli Anglo-Irish physician mini naturalist Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753) suhuyurilim, London dɔɣitɛ mini tabiibi-baŋda ŋun yina Ulster. O ni daa be o nyɛvuli ni, ni o ni daa bo Jamaica pakoli naai, Sloane daa laɣim "collection of curiosities" pam, ka daa bi yu ni o zali shɛli maa ti lahi kani o kalinsi nyaaŋa.

Montagu House, c. 1715

Entrance ticket to the British Museum, London 3 March 1790

Left to Right: Montagu House, Townley Gallery and Sir Robert Smirke's west wing under construction, July 1828

The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus Room, 1920s

Opening of The North Wing, King Edward VII's Galleries, 1914

Sir Leonard Woolley holding an excavated plaster cast of the Sumerian Queen's Lyre, 1922.

The re-opened Duveen Gallery, 1980

The Great Court was developed in 2001 and surrounds the original Reading Room.

Room 61 – The famous false fresco 'Pond in a Garden' from the Tomb of Nebamun, c. 1350 BC

Room 4 – The Rosetta Stone, key to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, 196 BC

Roman saha (30 BC – 641 AD)

"Schist" zuɣu din nyɛ bi'polli dini, Alexandria ( 30 BC nyaaŋa)

• "Meriotic Hamadab Stela" din yina Kingdom of Kush din kpa m-miri Meroë din be Sudan, 24 BC
• Soter mini Cleopatra kum adaka yɔrigu din yina Qurna, Thebes ( 2nd century AD piligu)
• Hawara ma anfooni(100–200 AD)
• Fayum mummy portraits din gari kalinli pihita ka yina Hawara ni Fayum yaɣ'shɛŋa (40–250 AD)
• Bronzefurila mini patera din yina X-group gbala ni, Qasr Ibrim (1st–6th centuries AD)
• "Coptic wall" peentibu zaŋti martyrdom din nyɛ saints, Wadi Sarga dini (6th century AD)

Departments

Department of Egypt and Sudan

Room 61 – The famous false fresco 'Pond in a Garden' from the Tomb of Nebamun, c. 1350 BC

Room 4 – The Rosetta Stone, key to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, 196 BC

British Museum nyɛ din mali taarihi binyɛra pam dunia zaa ka lahi mali Egyptian antiquities pam (kamani kalinli din gari 100,000 ) Egyptian Museum din be Cairo. Di nyɛla din lahi mali kaya ni taada binyɛra zaŋ n-ti Nile Valley ( Nubia), bin din gbaai Predynastic Neolithic saha (c. 10,000 BC), Coptic (Christian) saha (12th century AD) zaŋ hali na ni zuŋɔ, di yuma nyɛla din gari 11,000.

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  Room 64 – Egyptian grave containing a Gebelein predynastic mummy, late predynastic, 3400 BC
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  Room 4 – Three black granite statues of the pharaoh Senusret III, c. 1850 BC
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  Room 4 – Three black granite statues of the goddess Sakhmet, c. 1400 BC
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  Room 4 – Colossal statue of Amenhotep III, c. 1370 BC
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  Great Court – Colossal quartzite statue of Amenhotep III, c. 1350 BC
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  Room 4 - Limestone statue of a husband and wife, 1300–1250 BC
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  Room 63 - Gilded outer coffins from the tomb of Henutmehyt, Thebes, Egypt, 19th Dynasty, 1250 BC
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  Book of the Dead of Hunefer, sheet 5, 19th Dynasty, 1250 BC
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  Room 4 – Ancient Egyptian bronze statue of a cat from the Late Period, c. 664–332 BC
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  Room 4 – Green siltstone head of a Pharaoh, 26th–30th Dynasty, 600–340 BC
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  Great Court – Black siltstone obelisk of King Nectanebo II of Egypt, Thirtieth dynasty, c. 350 BC
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  Room 62 – Detail from the mummy case of Artemidorus the Younger, a Greek who had settled in Thebes, Egypt, during Roman times, 100–200 AD

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  Room 12 – A gold earring from the Aegina Treasure, Greece, 1700–1500 BC
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  Room 18 – Parthenon statuary from the east pediment and Metopes from the south wall, Athens, Greece, 447–438 BC
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  Room 19 – Caryatid and Ionian column from the Erechtheion, Acropolis of Athens, Greece, 420–415 BC
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  Room 20 – Tomb of Payava, Lycia, Turkey, 360 BC
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  Room 21 – Fragmentary horse from the colossal chariot group which topped the podium of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Turkey, c. 350 BC
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  Room 22 - Gold oak wreath with a bee and two cicadas, western Turkey, c. 350–300 BC
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  Room 22 – Column from the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Turkey, early 4th century BC
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  Room 22 - Colossal head of Asclepius wearing a metal crown (now lost), from a cult statue on Melos, Greece, 325–300 BC
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  Room 22 – Bronze head and hand of an ancient Hellenistic statue discovered in Satala, Turkey, 200–100 BC
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  Room 1 - Farnese Hermes in the Enlightenment Gallery, Italy, 1st century AD
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  Room 69 - Roman gladiator helmet from Pompeii, Italy, 1st century AD
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  Room 23 - The famous version of the 'Crouching Venus', Roman, c. 1st century AD
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  Room 22 – Roman marble copy of the famous 'Spinario (Boy with Thorn)', Italy, c. 1st century AD
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  Room 22 – Apollo of Cyrene (holding a lyre), Libya, c. 2nd century AD

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  Room 56 – The 'Ram in a Thicket' figure, one of a pair, from Ur, Southern Iraq, c. 2600 BC
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  Room 56 – The famous 'Standard of Ur', a hollow wooden box with scenes of war and peace, from Ur, c. 2600 BC
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  Room 56 - Sculpture of the god Imdugud, lion-headed eagle surmounting a lintel made from sheets of copper, Temple of Ninhursag at Tell al-'Ubaid, Iraq, c. 2500 BC
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  Room 56 - Statue of Kurlil, from the Temple of Ninhursag in Tell al-'Ubaid, southern Iraq, c. 2500 BC
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  Room 56 – The famous Babylonian 'Queen of the Night relief' of the goddess Ishtar, Iraq, c. 1790 BC
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  Room 57 - Carved ivory object from the Nimrud Ivories, Phoenician, Nimrud, Iraq, 9th–8th century BC
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  Room 6 – Depiction of the hypocrite, Jehu, King of Israel on the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, Nimrud, c. 827 BC
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  Room 10 – Human Headed Winged Bulls from Khorsabad, companion pieces in the Musée du Louvre, Iraq, 710–705 BC
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  Room 55 – Cuneiform Collection, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, Iraq, c. 669–631 BC
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  Room 55 – Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal (detail), Nineveh, Neo-Assyrian, Iraq, c. 645 BC
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  Room 55 - Panel with striding lion made from glazed bricks, Neo-Babylonian, Nebuchadnezzar II, Southern Iraq, 604–562 BC
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  Room 52 – A chariot from the Oxus Treasure, the most important surviving collection of Achaemenid Persian metalwork, c. 5th to 4th centuries BC
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  Great Court - Decorated column base from Hundred Column Hall, Persepolis, 470–450 BC
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  Room 53 - Stela said to come from Tamma' cemetery, Yemen, 1st century AD
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  Room 53 - Alabaster statue of a standing female figure, Yemen, 1st-2nd centuries AD
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  Room 34 - Cylindrical lidded box with an Arabic inscription recording its manufacture for the ruler of Mosul, Badr al-Din Lu'lu', Iraq, c. 1233 – 1259 AD

Department of Prints and Drawings

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  Rogier van der Weyden - Portrait of a Young Woman, c. 1440
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  Hieronymus Bosch - A comical barber scene, c. 1477–1516
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  Sandro Botticelli - Allegory of Abundance, 1480–1485
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  Leonardo da Vinci – The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist (prep for 'The Burlington House Cartoon'), c. 1499–1500
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  Michelangelo – Studies of a reclining male nude: Adam in the fresco The Creation of Man on the vault of the Sistine Chapel, c. 1511
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  Raphael – Study of Heads, Mother and Child, c. 1509–1511
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  Titian – Drowning of the Pharaoh's Host in the Red Sea, 1515–1517
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  Albrecht Dürer - Drawing of a walrus, 1521
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  Hans Holbein the Younger - Portrait of Anne Boleyn, 1536
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  Joris Hoefnagel and Jacob Hoefnagel - Allegory on Life and Death, circa 1598
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  Peter Paul Rubens - Study for the figure of Christ on the Cross, 1610
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  Francisco de Zurbarán - Head of a monk, 1625–1664
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  Claude Lorrain - Drawing of mules, including one full-length, 1630–1640
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  Rembrandt – The Lamentation at the Foot of the Cross, 1634–35
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  Thomas Gainsborough - Drawing of a woman with a rose, 1763–1765
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  J. M. W. Turner - Watercolour of Newport Castle, 1796
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  Isaac Cruikshank - 'The happy effects of that grand system of shutting ports against the English!!', 1808
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  John Constable - London from Hampstead Heath in a Storm, (watercolour), 1831
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  James McNeill Whistler - View of the Battersea side of Chelsea Reach, London, (lithograph), 1878
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  Vincent van Gogh - Man Digging in the Orchard (print), 1883

Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory

Gallery 50 – View down the Roman Britain gallery

Gallery 2a – Display case of Renaissance metalware from the Waddesdon Bequest

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  Room 2 – Handaxe, Lower Palaeolithic, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, c. 1.2 million years BC
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  Room 3 – Swimming Reindeer carving, France, c. 13,000 years BC
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  Room 2 – Ain Sakhri lovers, from the cave of Ain Sakhri, near Bethlehem, c. 9000 BC
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  Room 51 – Mold gold cape, North Wales, Bronze Age, c. 1900–1600 BC
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  Room 50 – Wandsworth Shield, Iron Age shield boss in La Tène style, England, 2nd century BC
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  Room 50 – Gold torc found in Needwood Forest, central England, 75 BC
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  Room 49 - Bronze head of a Roman emperor, Claudius or Nero, from Rendham in Suffolk, eastern England, 1st century AD
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  Room 49 – Romano-British crown and diadem found in Hockwold cum Wilton, England 1st century AD
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  Room 49 – Hinton St Mary Mosaic with face of Christ in the centre, from Dorset, southern England, 4th century AD
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  Room 49 – Corbridge Lanx, silver tray depicting a shrine to Apollo, northern England, 4th century AD
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  Room 41 – Silver objects from the Roman Coleraine Hoard, Northern Ireland, 4th-5th centuries AD
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  Room 41 – Sutton Hoo helmet, Anglo-Saxon, England, early 7th century AD
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  Room 40 – Ivory statue of Virgin and Child, who is crushing a dragon under her left foot from Paris, France, 1310-1330 AD
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  Room 40 – Chaucer Astrolabe, the oldest dated in Europe, 1326 AD
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  Room 40 – Royal Gold Cup or Saint Agnes Cup, made in Paris, France, 1370–80 AD
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  Room 2a – Holy Thorn Reliquary, made in Paris, c. 1390s AD
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  Room 38 – Mechanical Galleon clock, Augsburg, Germany, around 1585 AD
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  Room 38 – Carillon clock with automata by Isaac Habrecht, Switzerland, 1589 AD
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  Room 39 – Ornate clock made by Thomas Tompion, England, 1690 AD

Department of Asia

Room 33a – Amaravati Sculptures, southern India, 1st century BC and 3rd century AD

Room 95 – The Percival David collection of Chinese ceramics

Statue of Lord Shiva Nataraja.

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  Room 33 - Cubic weights made of chert from Mohenjo-daro, Pakistan, 2600-1900 BC
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  Room 33 - One of the hu from Huixian, China, 5th century BC
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  Room 33 - A hamsa sacred goose vessel made of crystal from Stupa 32, Taxila, Pakistan, 1st century AD
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  Room 33 - Stone sculpture of the death of Buddha, Gandhara, Pakistan, 1st-3rd centuries AD
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  Room 91a - Section of the Admonitions Scroll by Chinese artist Gu Kaizhi, China, c. 380 AD
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  Room 33 - Gilded bronze statue of the Buddha, Dhaneswar Khera, India, 5th century AD
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  The Amitābha Buddha from Hancui on display in the museum's stairwell, China, 6th century AD
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  Room 33 - The luohan from Yixian made of glazed stoneware, China, 907-1125 AD
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  Sculpture of Goddess Ambika found at Dhar, India, 1034 AD
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  Sculpture of the two Jain tirthankaras Rishabhanatha and Mahavira, Orissa, India, 11th-12th century AD
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  Room 33 - Western Zhou bronze ritual vessel known as the "Kang Hou Gui", China, 11th century BC
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  Room 33 - A crowned figure of the Bodhisattva Khasarpana Avalokiteśvara, India, 12th century AD
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  Room 33 - Covered hanging jar with underglaze decoration, Si Satchanalai (Sawankalok), north-central Thailand, 14th-16th centuries AD
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  Room 33 - Hu-shaped altar flower vessel, Ming dynasty, China, 15th -16th centuries AD
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  Room 33 - An assistant to the Judge of Hell, figure from a judgement group, Ming dynasty, China, 16th century AD
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  Room 33 - Statue of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, gilded bronze. Nepal, 16th century AD
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  Portrait of Ibrâhîm 'Âdil Shâh II (1580–1626), Mughal Empire of India, 1615 AD
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  Room 90 - Courtesans of the Tamaya House, attributed to Utagawa Toyoharu, screen painting; Japan, Edo period, late 1770s or early 1780s AD
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  Room 33 - Large statue of Buddha made of lacquer from Burma, 18th-19th century AD
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  Room 33 - Figure of seated Lama; of painted and varnished papier-mâché, Ladakh, India, 19th century AD

Copyright settlement

Silimiin goli August yuuni 2023, British Museum nyɛla ban daa di alizama ni lahabali lɛbigira Yilin Wang din daa niŋ ka bɛ zaŋ lahabali shɛli o ni daa lɛbigi ka di nyɛ yɛltɔɣa taɣimalisi tum tuma ka di pa o yidani la Qiu Jin.

Tibet naming conventions

Silimiin goli January yuuni 2025, British Museum nyɛla Tibetan ni daa galim shɛba ka fii pirinla bɛ daa zami ni Tibet nyɛla "Xizang," saha ŋɔ di nyɛla government of the People's Republic of China.

Galleries

Building

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  Main Staircase, Discobolus of Myron (the Discus-Thrower)
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  British Museum Reading Room
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  Ceiling of the Great Court and the black siltstone obelisks of Nectanebo II, c. 350 BC
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  Detail of an Ionic capital on a pilaster in the Great Court
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  African Garden – created by BBC TV programme Ground Force

Museum galleries

Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan

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  Room 4 – Egyptian Sculpture, view towards the Assyrian Transept
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  Room 4
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  Room 4

Department of the Middle East

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  The British Museum, Room 6 – Assyrian Sculpture
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  Room 8 – Pair of Lamassu from Nimrud and reliefs from the palace of Tiglath-Pileser III
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  Room 7 – Reliefs from the North-west palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud
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  Room 89 – Nimrud and Nineveh Palace Reliefs
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  Room 10 – Nineveh, The Royal Lion Hunt

Department of Greece and Rome

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  Room 18 – Ancient Greece
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  Room 20a – Tomb of Merehi and Greek vases, Lycia, 360 BC
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  Room 85 – Portrait Sculpture, Roman
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  Room 84 – Towneley Roman Sculptures
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  Main Staircase – Discobolus, Roman
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  Main Staircase – Townley Caryatid, Roman, 140–160 AD

Digital and online

Museum ŋɔ nyɛla din mali saawara ni Google Cultural Institute din yɛn che ka bɛ lahabaya ŋɔ tooi be pohim zuɣu.

Exhibitions

• Chronology of Temporary Exhibitions at the British Museum, by Joanna Bowring (British Museum Research Paper 189, 2012) lists all temporary exhibitions from 1838 to 2012.
• Helen Wang, 2022. ‘Displays of money and medals at the British Museum, 1759 to 2022’, Numismatic Chronicle 182, pp. 313–338.

Forgotten Empire Exhibition (October 2005 – January 2006)

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  Room 5 – Exhibitions Panorama
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  Room 5 – The Persepolis Casts
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  Room 5 – Exhibitions Relics
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  Room 5 – The Cyrus Cylinder

Bin din gbaai Silimiin goli January zaŋ hali ni Silimiin goli April yuuni 2012, museum ŋɔ nyɛla ban daa ti Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam, tuuli din daa galisi zaŋ n-ti Hajj, di nyɛla musuliminima daantali dibaa anu la zaɣ'yini.

Lihimi m-pahi

• 2016–17 all-female UK terror plot

Further reading

• Anderson, Robert (2005). The Great Court and the British Museum. London: The British Museum Press
• Arrowsmith, Rupert Richard. Modernism and the Museum: Asian, African and Pacific Art and the London Avant Garde. Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 103–164. ISBN 978-0-19-959369-9.
• Arrowsmith, Rupert Richard. "The Transcultural Roots of Modernism: Imagist Poetry, Japanese Visual Culture, and the Western Museum System" Archived 4 Silimin gɔli March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Modernism/modernity Volume 18, Number 1, January 2011, pp. 27–42. Tɛmplet:ISSN.
• Bowring, Joanna (2012). Chronology of Temporary Exhibitions at the British Museum Archived 19 Silimin gɔli November 2018 at the Wayback Machine London: British Museum Research Paper 189.
• Caygill, Marjorie (2006). The British Museum: 250 Years. London: The British Museum Press
• Caygill, Marjorie (2002). The Story of the British Museum. London: The British Museum Press
• --do.-- (2009) Treasures of the British Museum London: The British Museum Press ISBN 0714150622 (1st ed. 1985; 2nd ed. 1992)
• Cook, B. F. (2005). The Elgin Marbles. London: The British Museum Press
• Esdaile, Arundell (1946) The British Museum Library: a Short History and Survey. London: Allen & Unwin
• Jacobs, Norman (2010) Behind the Colonnade. Stroud: The History Press
• Jenkins, Ian (2006). Greek Architecture and its Sculpture in The British Museum. London: The British Museum Press
• Francis, Frank, ed. (1971) Treasures of the British Museum. London: Thames & Hudson (rev. ed., 1975)
• Moser, Stephanie (2006). Wondrous Curiosities: Ancient Egypt at The British Museum. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
• Reade, Julian (2004). Assyrian Sculpture. London: The British Museum Press
• Reeve, John (2003). The British Museum: Visitor's Guide. London: The British Museum Press
• Wilson, David M. (2002). The British Museum: a history. London: The British Museum Press

External links

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• The British Museum from The Survey of London
• British Museum elevation
• Tɛmplet:EW charity
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• Tɛmplet:Internet Archive author
• Virtual tour of the British Museum provided by Google Arts & Culture

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