The British Museum: A History

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The British Museum: A History.

The British Museum Press, London 2002, liten 4to, orig. bind med omslag, 416 s., engelsk tekst, fotoplansjer.

«In 2003 The British Museum celebrates its 250th anniversary. The oldest and most famous publicly funded museum in the world, it was founded on the collections of a great polymath, Sir Hans Sloane. Sloane’s book and natural history collections form the core of what are now the British Library and the Natural History Museum, while the rest of his collection — antiquities, prints, drawings, coins and medals — grew to form the great Museum we know today. […] Until the middle years of the twentieth century the Museum provided the only academic professionalism in fields such as archaeology, ancient languages and art history.»