The collections of the British Museum

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The British Museum has about eight million objects in its collection, half of these you can see on the British Museum collection database. Enjoy some of the earliest objects created by man to works by contemporary artists.

Choose from curated collections below, including desire, love, identity and death and memory, as well as the Americas. British Museum exhibition catalogues Sort by Featured Best selling Alphabetically, A-Z Alphabetically, Z-A Price, low to high Price, high to low Date, old to new Date, new to old Browse our collection of exhibition catalogues from current and past shows at the British Museum together with collection catalogues and children's books.

Marjorie Caygill has published numerous books and articles about the history of the British Museum and the collections. These include The Story of the British Museum, The British Museum Reading Room and The British Museum: by: 2.

Exhibition history Exhibited: 24 Mar Jun, Australia, Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, Civilization: Ancient Treasures from the British Museum, cat.

no 28 Jun Sep, Australia, Melbourne, Museum of Victoria, Civilization: Ancient Treasures from the British Museum, cat. no 20 Oct-9 Dec, Japan, Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, Treasures of.

Medical subjects are a popular theme here. You’ll find plenty of organs and other relevant details to color, compliments of Boston’s Countway Library’s Center for the History of Medicine, London’s Royal College of Physicians, and the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia (aka the Mütter Museum).

The coloring book of the Richardson-Sloane Special. Organized by The New York Academy of Medicine Library, there are over institutions that have compiled free adult coloring books as well as free coloring book pages for reflects the materials that they hold in their collections.

The range of participating organizations and their available subject matter is impressive; from rare books to scientific.

The collections of The British Museum span The collections of the British Museum book cultures and all ages, ranging from ancient Egyptian mummies to masterpieces of Greek and Roman art; from Celtic gold to Japanese paintings and traditional textiles from Africa.

Today the Museum is bringing its collections up to date, and this highly illustrated book also features many recent 5/5(2). The British Museum, in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and permanent collection of some eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence, having been widely sourced during the era of the British documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the Director: Hartwig Fischer.

The Royal manuscripts are one of the "closed collections" of the British Library (i.e. historic collections to which new material is no longer added), consisting of some 2, manuscripts collected by the sovereigns of England in the "Old Royal Library" and given to the British Museum by George II in They are still catalogued with call numbers using the prefix "Royal" in the.

Download RIS citations. TY - BOOK TI - The history of the collections contained in the Natural history departments of the British museum VL - v.1 ().

The Museum's 80 million specimens form the world’s most important natural history collection. The scientific community is using the collection to answer key questions about the past, present and future of the solar system, the geology of our planet and life on Earth.

Search for staff. Find a specimen. Botany collections. Collections. Of the Museum's 80 million specimens, only a tiny fraction ever go on display. Uncover colourful stories behind the specimens, meet collectors and curators past and present and read about their contributions to our understanding of the natural world.

The Library is home to hundreds of archival collections and oversingle manuscripts, books, prints, photographs, and ephemera documenting the history of what is now the Northeast, Midwest, and South of the United States, as well as the Atlantic and Central regions of Canada, from the colonial era through the end of World War II.

“The British Museum acknowledges the difficult histories of some of its collections, including the contested means by which some collections have been acquired such as through military action Author: Dalya Alberge.

The British Museum Was a Wonder of Its Time—But Also a Product of Slavery A new book explores the little-known life and career of Hans Sloane, whose collections led to the founding of the Author: Lorraine Boissoneault.

The British Library’s collection includes books, journals, manuscripts, maps, stamps, music, patents, photographs, newspapers and sound. Many of our digital collections provide material for free online. Please come to our Reading Rooms to access material that isn’t available online. Read our subject guides to find out more about our core research areas.

Alderson, Brian, Sing a Song for Sixpence: the English Picture-Book Tradition and Randolph Caldecott (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press in association with the British Library, ) Attar, Karen (ed.), Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

3rd edn (London: Facet, ) (entry D4. Another important part of the collection comprises the arts of the book. The relocation of the British Library, originally part of the Museum, to its current home at St Pancras inresulted in manuscripts and books being housed at St Pancras, while albums and single-page works remained in the Museum.

million artifacts, works of art, and specimens in the Smithsonian's collections. million of these specimens and artifacts are held by the National Museum of Natural History. 16 million digital records available online through the Collections Search Center.

million library volumes held by Smithsonian Libraries. Cultural institutions around the world have many types of coloring pages available for free download as part of an initiative known as #ColorOurCollections.

Spanning historical scenes to medical marvels, the initiative’s website features all. The Museum of the World – an interactive experience through time, continents and cultures, featuring some of the most fascinating objects in human history. The project is a partnership between the British Museum and Google Cultural Institute.

For the first time ever, discover objects from the British Museum’s collection from prehistory to.British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology,Hampson, George Francis, Sir, 10th bart., Catalogue of the specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum.

By. British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology. Gray, John Edward, Type. Book Material. Published material. Publication info. London,Printed .