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DEPARTMENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

GOVERNANCE.

Departments of the middle East.

• The british Museum is a non- department public sponsored by the Department for culture.

• The British Museum is a museum dedicated to human history and culture,located in the Bloomsbury area of London.

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

• With a collection numbering some 330,000 works.
• The British Museum possesses the world's largest and most important collection of Mesopotamian antiquities outside Iraq.

Room 6 – Pair of Human Headed Winged Lions and reliefs from Nimrud with the Balawat Gates, c. 860 BC

Room 9 – Nineveh Palace Reliefs, 701-681 BC

Department of Prehistory and Europe.

Department of prints and drawings.

• The Department of Prehistory and Europe is responsible for collections that cover a vast expanse of time and geography.

• The holdings are easily accessible to the general public in the Study Room, unlike many such collections.

Room 50 - Gold torc found in the Needwood Forest, 75 BC

Room 51 – Mold gold cape, North Wales, Bronze Age, c. 1900–1600 BC

Room 40 - Ivory statue of Virgin and Child, who is crushing a dragon under her left foot from Paris, France, 1310-1330 AD

VIDEO ABOUT THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Hieronymus Bosch - A comical barber scene, c. 1477-1516

Rogier van der Weyden - Portrait of a Young Woman, c. 1440

JMW Turner - Watercolour of Newport Castle, 1796

Room 52 - Ancient Iran with the Cyrus Cylinder, considered to be the world's first charter of human rights, 559-530 BC

BUILDINGS.

HISTORY.

CONTROVERSY.

SIR HANS SLOANE, FOUNDER OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

THANKS

• It is a point of controversy whether museums should be allowed to possess artefacts taken from other countries, and the British Museum is a notable target for criticism.

• Although today principally a museum of cultural art objects and antiquities, the British Museum was founded such as "universal museum".

The Enlightenment Gallery at museum, which formerly held the King's Library,

Proposed British Museum Extension, 1906.

The main entrance to the museum, with Greek temple style portico.

FOUNDATION (1753)

FOR YOUR

• On 7 June 1753, King George II gave his formal assent to the Act of Parliament which established the British Museum.

A few of the Elgin Marbles (also known as the Parthenon Marbles) from the East Pediment of the Parthenon.

External view of the World Conservation and Exhibition Centre at the museum.

The Reading Room and Great Court roof

SOME PHOTOS ABOUT THE HISTORY.

ATTENTION.

The Elgin Room, 1937

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

The Rosetta Stone on display in the British Museum in 1874

The Grenville Library, 1875

The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus Room, 1920

Display case of Renaissance metalware from the Waddesdon Bequest, 2014

LUCÍA CARVAJAL

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ANDREA GÓMEZ.

LONDON.