British Museum Souvenir Guide - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714116920 ISBN 13: 9780714116921

Publisher: BRITISH MUSEUM, 1992

Synopsis

The British Museum, in London, is widely considered to be one of the world's greatest museums of human history and culture. Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works,is amongst the finest, most comprehensive, and largest in existenceand originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum 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 was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington in 1887. Some objects in the collection, most notably the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, are the objects of intense controversy and of calls for restitution to their countries of origin.

About this edition

• Publisher: BRITISH MUSEUM
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0714116920
• ISBN 13: 9780714116921
• Binding: Paperback